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CHRISTIAN  (?)  SCIENGE 

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BY 

A.  REILLY  COPELAND 

Author  of 

"EVOLUTION  THEORIES  UNCOVERED" 

And  Others. 


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CHRISTIAN  (?)  SCIENCE 

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BY 
A.  REILLY  COPELAND.  S.  T.  D. 

Pastor  and  Bible  Teacher 


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A  TEST  FOR  THOSE  FLIRTING  WITH  ERROR 

"The  Living  Church"  (Episcopal)  has  a  story  of  a  rector  who,  when 
solicited  by  a  woman  member  of  his  church  for  a  letter  to  a  Christian  Science 
Church,  sent  her  a  renunciation  of  her  church  to  be  signed,  which  she  never 
did.  This  story  suggests  a  practical  test  for  pastors  and  people  to  make 
with  those  who  are  tinctured  with  the  virus,  and  are  flirting  with  the  devi: 

Renunciation  of  My  Church  Vows: 

Having  been  baptized  in  the  name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son  arid 

of  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  having  been  admitted  into  the  fellowship  of  the 

Church,  and  having  taken  the  vows  of  allegiance  to  Jesis 

Christ,  and  faithulness  to  my  church  and  having  accepted  the  teaching  >f 
Mrs.  Mary  Baker  Patterson  Eddy  as  set  forth  in  her  book,  "Science  and  Healh 
with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,"  I  do  hereby  certify: 

That  I  renounce  my  baptism; 

That  I  do  deny  that  Jesus  Christ  was  God  manifest  in  the  flesh; 

That  I  do  repudiate  the  doctrine  of  sin; 

That  I  do  reject  the  doctrine  of  the  forgiveness  of  sin  through  the  shed 
blood  of  that  same  Jesus  Christ; 

That  I  do  renounce  the  doctrine  of  the  Trinity,  and  will  no  longer  worship 
the  same;  ' 

That  I  refuse  to  participate  in  the  observance  of  the  Lord's  Supper  ( 

That  I  hereby  abandon  the  faith  of  the 

Church  and  authorize  you  to  erase  my  name  from  your  membership  recoi^ds, 
and  make  my  choice  to  be  a  member  of  the  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist. 


Late 


Signature. 


Witness 


This  will  settle  the  matter  with  most  of  the  flirts  and  bring  them  to  their 
senses.  If  they  refuse  to  sign  this,  it  evidences  their  insincerity.  If  they  do 
sign  it,  it  proves  that  they  never  were  true  believers  in  the  shed  blood  of 
Christ,  but  purely  church  members. 

"My  sheep  hear  my  voice;  a  stranger  will  they  not  follow,  but  will  ilee 
from  him;  for  they  know  not  the  voice  of  strangers." 

Try  this  method  with  some  of  your  Christian  Science  friends  and  let  us 
know  the  results.— T.  C.  H. 

(The  King's  Business.) 
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PREFACE 

Dr.  J.  E.  Conant,  evangelist,  preached  a  sermon  on  the  subject,  "Will 
Christian  Scientists  Go  to  Heaven?"  during  a  revival  meeting  he  conducted 
for  Central  Presbyterian  Church,  Denton,  Texas.  The  Denton  Record- 
Chronicle  reported  the  sermon.  Someone  sent  the  paper  to  Mr.  Brigman  C. 
Odom,  a  defender  of  Eddyism  of  Dallas,  Texas.  He  replied  through  the 
Chronicle  to  Dr.  Conant's  sermon  and  denounced  it  as  false.  As  the  evange- 
list had  left  for  Chicago,  I  replied  to  Mr.  Odom's  criticism.  He  came  back 
v/ith  a  second  article  in  criticism  of  mine.  I  replied  to  his  second  criticism 
shortly  after. 

The  Record-Chronicle  then  announced  that  the  series  were  closed  as  we 
had  had  two  articles  apiece.  Mr.  Odom,  not  satisfied  with  the  discussion  in 
that  stage,  came  back  with  a  third  article  in  the  form  of  column  advertise- 
ment. I  replied  to  this  with  a  70-inch  paid  article.  By  this  time  the  Dallas 
rf«an  was  getting  a  bit  uncomfortable,  it  seemed.  True  to  form,  however,  he 
came  back  v/ith  another  ad,  but  said  it  was  his  last,  no  matter  what  I  wrote. 
Desiring  to  not  disappoint  the  many  enquiries,  I  answered  the  Dallas  critic's 
fourth  and  final  article,  which  made  us  four  apiece. 

The  public  manifested  so  much  interest  in  these  discussions  I  felt  it 
would  be  worth  while  to  put  them  in  book  form  just  as  they  were  written. 
Each  article  is  a  separate  chapter.  There  are  eight  of  them  with  some  ad- 
ditional matter.  The  reader  will  bear  in  mind  the  newspaper  style  of  pre- 
sentation. Popular  diction  seems  to  appeal  more  to  the  general  public.  Dis- 
cussions always  vary  quite  a  bit  in  form  and  substance  on  any  subject,  hence 
the  freehand  formation  of  this  series. 

I  am  happy  to  siiy  that  there  is  no  personal  feeling  whatever  in  my 
heart  toward  any  living  human.  What  has  been  written  in  this  volume  is 
purely  for  the  sake  of  exposing  a  system  which  to  me  is  unbiblical,  unscientific 
and  unphilosophical.  I  have  given  proof  for  every  statement  made  by  giving 
source  of  authority.  The  readers  can  investigate  for  themselves.  Too,  be- 
fore final  judgment  is  passed,  the  reader  can  also  investigate  Christian 
Science  on  the  merits  of  its  own  claims  by  one  of  its  able  defenders.  This 
is  the  only  book  published  with  this  feature,  hence  a  unique  styled  entirely. 
No  one  can  rightfully  accuse  the  author  of  being  unfair  as  he  gives  facts 
just  as  they  were  written  in  the  daily  newspaper. 

It  has  been  the  author's  privilege  to  turn  the  Xray  of  truth  on  Christian 
Science  ever  since  he  became  a  Christian.  He  is  happy  to  give  the  full  pic- 
ture to  the  public  in  the  present  volume.  Any  Christian  that  reads  the  as- 
lounding  statements  of  Mrs.  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  chief  scribe  of  the  book, 
"Science  and  Health,"  cannot  help  becoming  both  amused  and  righteously 
indignant.  For  instance  on  page  231  Christ  is  defined  as  "Divine  ^Science." 
Page  242  says:  "There  is  but  one  way  to  heaven  and  harmony  and  Christ, 
Divine  Science  shows  us  the  way."  This  claim  equals  those  of  Buddha,  Mo- 
hammed, Confucius,  Joseph  Smith  or  any  other  false  prophet  of  history. 

Mrs.  Eddy  does  not  stop,  however,  in  her  sweeping  claims   of  divinity 
until  she  places  herself  above  the  deity  of  Jesus  Christ.     She  claims  to  have 
d.>ne  more  for  the  world  than  He.     On  page  147  she  says:     "Our  Master  heal-  -. 
ed  the  sick,  practiced   Christian  healing   and  taught   the   generalities   of   its  \> 
Divine  principle  to  His  students,  but  He  left  no  definite  rule  for  demonstrat-    O 


iiip:  the  principle  of  healin;::  and   preventing  disease.     This   remained   to  be 
/"^liscovered  through  Christian   Science."     One  can  readily  see  by  this  state- 
/  ment  that  she  claims  to  have  given  the  world  truth  that  Jesus  did  not  know. 
/   This  is  awful.     Can  you  beat  it? 

Mrs.  Eddy  goes  on  and  on  in  her  claims  to  supernatural  powers  of 
supremacy.  She  said  that  no  one  else  can  take  her  place.  I  have  been  to 
Wednesday  evening  Christian  Science  church  meetings  and  all  of  their 
testimonies  give  no  uncertain  sound  in  exalting  Mrs.  Eddy  and  her  teachings. 
Any  religious  system  that  magnifies  man's  wisdom  instead  of  glorifying 
'/Christ  is  a  dangerous  cult. — 2  John  7-11. 

To  all  who  love  the  truth,  and  especially  to  Dr.  J.  E.  Conant,  evangelist, 
?nd  Mr.  C.  A.  King,  singer,  this  book  is  dedicated. 

THE  AUTHOR. 
Denton,  Texas,  March  1,  1921. 


// 


FOREWORD 

True  to  form  Christian  Science  cannot  stand  reason.  This  is  plain, 
tlie  doctrine  will  not  stand  logical  weights.  We  have  often  been 
accused  of  being  unduly  harsh  and  prejudiced  against  Christian  Science. 
Scientists  often  send  us  literature  on  different  phases  of  the  subject.  In 
11'19  a  professed  admirer  of  Mrs.  Eddy  sent  me  the  following  corrective  poem 
entitled, 


DON'T  BE  A  KNOCKER 

Don't  criticise  other's  faults 

No  matter  what  they  do; 
Don't  ridicule  the  masses  or 

Malign  the  chosen  few. 
Don't  think  yourself  a  censor  for 

The  silly  human  flock. 
And  just  remember  as  you  go 

That  any  fool  can  knock. 

Don't  laugh  at  those  who  make  mistakes 

And  stumble  on  the  way, 
For  you  are  apt  to  follow  them 

And  almost  any  day, 
Don't  think  the  others  shifting  sands 

While  you  are  solid  rock. 
And  don't  forget,  for  heaven's  sake. 

That  any  fool  can  knock. 

Don't  be  a  puller  down  of  fame, 
On  other  men  conferred. 

Don't  give  a  parting  kick  to  one 
Who  fell  because  he  erred. 

Don't  think  that  you  are  perfect  and 
The  only  size  in  stock. 

And  now,  once  more,  just  bear  in  mind 

THAT 

ANY  FOOL 

CAN  KNOCK." 

We  immediately  replied  with  the  following  poem: 

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CHRISTIAN  (?)  SCIENCE 

Versus 

COMMON  SENSE 

He  was  a  Christian  Scientist  with  a  mild,  benij^nant  air, 
And  for  unwary  victims  he  set  a  cunning  snare. 
From  out  the  ''rural  districk"  an  old  backwoodsman  came, 
His  steps  were  slow  and  feeble,  for  he  was  o>J  and  lame. 

He  heard  of  Christian  Science,  and,  as  he  thought  it  o'er 
He  said,  "I  guess  I'll  get  some,  my  jints  is  stiff  and  sore." 
So,  to  the  portly  healer,  who  sat  in  self -content 
With  plump  hands  idly  folded,  the  good  old  farmer  went — 

Said  he,  "This  way  of  healin'  is  quare,  I  swan  it  is, 

'N'  I  want  a  dose  of  science  to  cure  my  rheumatiz.*' 

The  great  man  eyed  his  caller,  and  sat  in  thought  awhile. 

Then  leaned  back  in  his  arm-chair  and  said  with  placid  smile — 

'*My  friend,  there  is  no  suffering — to  think  so  is  to  sin, 
Remember  you  are  God's  child,  and  let  his  presence  in. 
Since  God  is  AH,  forever,  what  is  there  then  to  heal? 
God  surely  cannot  suffer,  and  matter  cannot  feel. 

With  truth  and  goodness  present,  how  then  can  sickness  stay  ? 
For  good  is  never  evil,  as  night  is  never  day. 

So,  when  you  think  you're  suffering  (which  really  you  are  not), 
The  cure  is  very  simple— just  change  your  sinful  thought, 

And  if  you  should  be  tempted  to  have  a  pain  some  day, 
Let  good  o'ercome  the  evil,  and  drive  such  thoughts  away. 
Now  this  belief  of  lameness,  good  thoughts  will  soon  dispel, 
And  when  friends  ask  'How  are  you?'  just  answer,  'I  am  well.' 

And  mind  shall  conquer  matter,  and  thought  shall  reign  supreme 
These  bodies  are  but  shadows,  this  world  is  but  a  dream. 
Then  live  in  perfect  harmony  and  discord  quickly  flees; 
Consider  yourself  painless — five  dollars  if  you  please." 

The  farmer  stared  in  silence  and  slovvly  scratched  his  head; 
"So  this  is  Christian  Science!     Wall,  I'll  be  blest!"  he  said. 
"Perhaps  you  call  this  healin',  but  I  don't  just  the  same; 
My  back  is  jes  as  cricky,  my  legs  is  jest  as  lame. 

Your  lingo  may  be  Science,  it  kinder  sounds  that  way, 
But  where  the  Christian  part  is,  I  swow,  it's  hard  to  say. 
It  sorter  riles  my  temper  and  makes  my  sperTt  rise 
To  hear  you  mixin'  sermons  v/ith  scientific  lies. 

It's  lucky  I  ain't  chipper,  or  you  might  have  to  hop; 
I'd  turn  things  topsy-turvy  in  this  old  science  shop. 
A  sin  to  suffer,  it  is?     (Of  all  the  cranky  stuff) 
Wall,  then,  you'd  be  a  sinner  if  I  was  strong  enough! 

I'd  give  ye  a  temptation  to  ache  in  many  a  spot, 

'N'  then  I'd  set  and  tell  you  to  change  your  sinful  thought 

You  say  that  good  aint  evil — wall,  I  don't  say  it  is, 

*N'  I  don't  say  the  Almighty  has  got  my  rheumatiz. 


It  is  in  my  old  body — and  gives  me  many  a  jar! 

'N'  taint  no  make  b'lieve  nuther,  for  when  it's  thar,  it's  thar! 

I  never  had  much  larnin',  but  still  I  got  a  brain, 

'N'  I  cal'c'late  I  know  enough  to  ache  when  I'm  in  pain. 

I  may  not  be  an  angel,  I  guess  we  all  have  sin. 

But  I  get  an  honest  livin,'  and  don't  take  poor  folks  in. 

'N*  I  don't  tell  a  feller  his  pain  is  in  his  mind, 

'N'  gobble  onto  money  for  saying  suthin  kind. 

Now  if  my  plaguey  lameness  should  disappear  some  day, 

Ef  it  was  God  as  done  it  why  should  you  want  the  pay  ? 

'N'  I  should  say  five  dollars  was  a  little  dear  for  sand, 
So  I'm  obliged  to  tell  you  your  little  bill  must  stand, 
'N'  if  your  thought's  so  mighty,  just  think  you've  got  your  pay, 
I  don't  pay  cash  to  shadders — so  I'll  jes  say  good-day." 
(Author  unknown  to  us). 


A   RHYME  OF  PURE  REASON 

A   Christian   Science   Proselyte 
Alone  upon  a  mountain  height 
Was  pondering  upon  the  vain 
Belief  in  non-existent  Pain. 

How  Nervous  Dread  of  any  kind 
Was  an  illusion  of  the  Mind. 
When,  coming  down  the   mountainside, 
A  dreadful  lion  he  espied. 

The  Proselyte  said,  "Mercy  Me!" 
And  quickly  scuttled  up  a  Tree. 
Next  morning  at  the  rise  of  sun 
There  came  an  Unconverted  One. 

Who  saw  the  Proselyte  at  bay. 
And  drove  the  hungry  beast  away. 
The  Cynic  said,  "Aha!      I  see. 
Your  claim  has  got  you  up  a  Tree." 

"Your  judgment,"  said  the  Proselyte, 
"Arises  from  Imperfect  Sight. 
"A  Lion  to  a  soul  refined 
Is  an  illusion  of  the  Mind." 

"If  that's  the  case."  the  Cynic  said, 
"Why  show  these  human  signs  of  Dread  ? 
"Why  pass  the  night,  secure  from  harm. 
In  yonder  Elevated  Paltn?" 

"P>iend,"  said  the  Saint,  "if  you  but  knew! 
This  Tree  is  an  Illusion,  too. 
When  in  a  Jungle,  far  from  Home, 
Where  purely  mental  Lions  roam. 

"It  puts  one  more  at  ease  to  be 

Up  some  imaginary  Tree." 

"How  great  is  Mind!"  the  Stranger  cried, 

And  went  his  way  quite  Eddy-fied. 

(The  King's  Business) 

—6— 


IN  HER  OWN  PLAY  YARD 

I  did  not  know  what  I  should  have  known, 

My  eyes  are  not  quite  so  good 
As  they  used  to  be,  I  am  free  to  own; 

That  ought  to  be  understood 
Before  I  am  blamed  for  the  thing  at  all. 

And  the  wailing  wild  outburst; 

There  were  yellow-jackets  against  the  wall — 

And  you  got  to  them  first. 

My  eyes  should  have  seen  their  hidden  nest 

Where  the  thick  rose  bushes  grow, 
And  I  should  never  have  taken  rest — 

But,  dearest,  please  don't  cry  so! 
I  know  that  that  is  an  aching  spot — 

No  wonder  you  roused  the  town! 
A  yellow-jacket  is  awful  hot 

When  it  backs  up  and  sits  down. 

And  you  supposed  they  were  honey-bees? 

And  you  wanted  to  pet  them?     Dear! 

And  you  just  gave  one  a  little  squeeze — 

I  didn't  know  what  to  fear 
Wlien  your  voice  tore  through  the  silence  so — 

I  hadn't  a  way  to  tell — 

Why,  all  of  agony — all  of  woe — 

And  grieving — ^was  in  that  yell. 

And  you  were  trying  to  just  be  kind, 

And  that's  what  you  got,  you  say? 
I'm  older,  dear,  than  you  are,  and  find 

That  life  is  a  lot  that  way; 
However,  they  are  a  sign  of  spring. 

In  the  rose  bush  by  the  wall, 
And  blooms  will  come  and  the  birds  will  sing, 

And  you  will  forget  it  all. 

What's  that  you  say — this  is  your  play-yard, 

And  all  that  is  in  it,  too? 
And  that  "bee  oughtn't've  kicked  so  hard?" 

That  is  absolutely  true! 
But  I  have  kissed  it  and  made  it  well, 

As  well  as  it  used  to  be; 
And  you'll  forget  what  a  grief  befell, 

And  come  to  the  store  with  me, 

JUDD  MORTIMER  LEWIS. 

(Houston  Post,  Feb.  5,  1921.) 


INTRODUCTION 

About  the  time  of  the  close  of  our  discussions  through  the  Record-Chron- 
icle, a  Denton  business  man  came  to  me  and  said  that  many  of  his  kinspeople 
were  Christian  Scientists  and  he  desired  to  relate  an  incident  to  me  in  which 
he  thought  I  would  be  interested.  He  said  while  in  Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  sum- 
mer of  1917,  he  took  violently  sick  with  acute  indigestion  while  out  on  the 
pier.  After  finally  getting  into  bed  in  hotel,  a  Christian  Scientist  practi- 
tioner offered  her  healing  advice. 

—7— 


In  the  meantime  the  sick  man's  gentleman  friend  who  had  stepped 
down  town,  retiimed  from  the  drug  store  and  slipped  a  little  vial  into  the 
patient's  hand  under  the  cover  and  whispered,  "Take  it  all."  In  about  ten 
minutes  the  patient  told  the  practitioner  that  he  was  feelin?;  better  and 
sleepy.  She  said,  "Yes,  I  knew  you  would  get  better.  That  is  just  the  kind 
of  effect  this  Science  has  on  one.  You  are  just  doing  fine.  I  am  so  glad 
you  are  sleepy.    Take  your  rest  now.     There  is  nothing  ailing  you." 

Of  course  the  narcotic  killed  the  sense  of  pain  and  made  the  patient 
drowsy.  After  the  night  of  sleep  the  patient  rose  to  his  daily  routine  of  life 
as  is  often  the  case  in  attacks  of  that  nature.  The  great  joke  of  it  is,  the 
woman  healer  told  everybody  about  her  wonderful  demonstration  of  mind 
over  matter  in  healing  this  man's  disease.  He  said  that  Christian  Science 
papers  gave  great  prominence  to  the  report.  This  is  a  sample  of  their  proofs 
for  so-called  cures  one  hears  so  much  about  these  days.  (Through  coui-tesy 
\/e  withold  gentleman's  name.     If  necessary,  we  can  give  it). 


OVERDOSE  OF  EDDYISM 

Los  Angeles,  California,  September  4th,  1919. 
To  Whom  it  May  Concern: — 

In  March,  1919,  when  my  sister-in-law,  who  died  a  few  weeks  later,  was 
taking  Christian  Science  treatments,  a  nurse  from  a  local  hospital,  told  me  in 
my  home,  the  following  incident: 

"I  was  made  special  nurse  on  the  case  of  a  local  Christian  Science  Prac- 
titioner, who  died  of  the  inflenza  during  the  epidemic.  Six  hours  before  he 
died  he  said  to  me: 

"I  am  a  Christian  Science  Practitioner.  I  have  made  my  living  as  a 
Practitioner  for  the  last  eight  years,  and  I  want  to  tell  you  it  is  *the  bunk.' 
I  owe  it  to  Christian  Science  I  am  here,  I  sat  on  my  front  porch  readinic 
'Science  &  Health'  with  a  temperature  of  104  which  caused  my  relapse'." 

(Signed)  Mrs.  C.  E. — Name  and  address  at  this  office. 
(The  King's  Business,  Los  Angeles,  Calif.) 


EDDYISM 


In  the  Church  Herald  of  recent  date  appears  an  editorial  under  tiio  above 
heading,  in  which  was  incorporated  a  letter  sent  them  by  Brother  C.  B.  Mc- 
Williams,  who  has  recently  lost  a  daughter.  She  had  tuberculosis,  and  some 
time  since  took  the  influenza  on  Saturday  and  died  on  Monday. 

She  had  been  in  touch  with  Christian  Science,  and  after  her  death  this 
letter,  which  had  been  addressed  to  her  by  a  Christian  Science  practitioner, 
was  found  in  her  room.     It  read  as  follows: 

"Dear  Mrs.  Andrews:  The  victory  for  truth  was  won  Saturday  night 
and  Sunday  morning,  and  was  due  to  your  changing  your  mind  ;».bout  the 
seeming  lies  of  mortal  mind.  Your  continued  improvement  will  be  due  to 
your  refusal  to  accept  the  different  lies  of  sense — testimony  as  they  present 
themselves.  I  want  you  to  say  mentally  and  vigorously,  'You  are  a  liar,  and 
I  know  you  are  one',  to  each  discordant  manifestation,  and  say  it  not  once, 
but  as  often  as  necessary.  In  saying  it  you  are  stating  the  truth,  and  that 
is  why  your  assertion  will  be  helpful.  Please  remember  we  are  not  trying 
to  cure  a  material  body,  but  are  engaged  in  rooting  false  beliefs  or  lies  out 
of  your  consciousness — a  process  of  mental  purification,  as  I  told  you.  When 
consciousness  is  purified  the  body  is  compelled  to  function  normally  and  har- 
moniously. Study  the  definition  of  Man,  page  475,  sentence  by  sentence, 
every  day  for  a  week,  and  try  to  realize  that  you  are  that  man  now.  Keep 
yourself  out  of  the  everyday  life  of  your  home  as  much  as  possible  all  the 
week,  and  don't  talk  with  any  one  about  your  condition,  except  Mr.  Andrews. 


Deny  that  you  ever  had  a  cough.  Get  that  lie  out  of  your  thinker.  The  real 
man  never  had  anything  but  infinite  good.  I  will  come  to  see  you  when 
necessary. 

"Yours  sincerely, 


The  Herald  editor  says:  "Brother  McWilliams  has  had  a  number  of 
copies  of  the  letter  made,  and  we  give  this  just  as  it  came  to  us.  It  seems  to 
us  that  such  a  letter  to  one  dying  would  have  less  of  consolation  and  help  in 
it  than  a  dose  of  sawdust.  But  this  error  is  spreading  rapidly,  and  we  are 
out  to  cry  against  it." — The  King's  Business. 


EDDYITES  ACCUSED  OF  MURDER 

The  "Examiner"  of  May  5th  tells  the  story  of  a  father  and  mother  of  a 
nine  year  old  child,  ill  with  diphtheria,  who  refused  to  call  a  physician.  The 
child  died  and  the  parents  are  on  trial  for  murder.  The  charge  against  them 
reads  "They  by  force  and  arms  did  kill  and  slay."^ 

We  are  glad  to  know  that  there  is  a  growing  tendency  to  deal  with  de- 
luded parents  who  permit  their  children  to  suffer  and  sometimes  die  for 
want  of  the  needed  treatment.  We  have  societies  for  the  prevention  of 
cruelty  to  animals.  Why  not  a  society  to  prevent  such  cruelty  to  children 
Vv/ho  when  they  are  sick  are  told  that  they  are  not  sick,  and  when  they  are  in 
pain  are  told  that  there  is  no  pain  and  to  "forget  it?"  If  some  dose  could  be 
given  to  such  parents  that  would  produce  a  real  case  of  colic  and  their 
children  could  gather  around  them  and  tell  them  to  "forget  it"  and  "hold 
the  thought,"  it  would  help  to  make  nil  the  nonsense  of  the  Eddyites.  Pity 
the  children  who  are  being  raised  in  these  homes,  and  pity  these  deluded 
dupes,  and  pray  that  the  Lord  may  deliver  many  from  the  power  of  Satan 
V/ho  are  now  following  these  cunningly  devised  fables.  If  we  cannot  help 
the  parents,  then  for  the  sake  of  these  poor,  helpless  children  who  are  not 
rrsponsible  for  coming  into  the  world  and  who  did  not  choose  brainless  par- 
ents, let  us  do  something  to  help  the  little  ones. 

— rr.  c.  H. 

(The  King's  Business). 


LOOKING  TO  THE  LOBSTER 

"All  disease  is  wholly  mental.  What  is  termed  disease  does  not  exist." 
So  says  Mrs.  Eddy.  "Sickness  is  a  growth  of  error  springing  from  man's 
ignorance  of  Christian  Science.  Sufferings  are  not  the  penalty  for  having 
broken  a  law.  Any  supposed  information  coming  from  the  body  is  illusion 
of  mortal  mind.  Nerves  are  a  part  of  a  belief  that  there  is  sensation  in 
matter." 

In  proof  of  this  contention  Mrs.  Eddy  tells  us  that  "cold  empurpled  the 
cheeks  of  our  ancestors  but  they  never  indulged  in  inflamed  bronchial  tubes 
because  they  were  ignorant  of  the  existence  of  such  things  as  tubes  and 
lungs."  (We  wonder  how  she  knows.)  But  she  gives  an  even  more  convinc- 
ing argument  when  she  says,  "When  the  unthinking  lobster  loses  its  claw  it 
grows  again.  If  Christian  Science  was  understood,  the  human  limb  would 
be  repJaced  as  readily  as  the  lobster's  claw.  The  less  mind  there  is  mani- 
fested in  matter  the  better."  (It  is  true  that  lobster's  claw  will  grow  again, 
but  she  forgot  that  a  cat's  tail  if  cut  off  will  not  replace  itself.  Evidently 
lobsters  make  better  Christian  Scientists  than  cats,  the  latter  having  too 
P'Uch  intellect  for  their  own  good.) 

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Now  if  all  of  this  is  true,  then  the  only  hope  for  a  one-legged  man  is  to 
become  either  a  lobster  or  a  lunatic.  "The  less  mind  there  is  manifested  in 
matter  the  better."  Instead  of  recognizing  the  reality  of  matter,  sin,  sick- 
ness and  death  and  looking  to  Jesus  Christ  for  overcoming  strength,  we 
should  look  to  the  unthinking  lobster  and  go  and  do  likewise. 

Strange,  is  it  not,  that  Mrs.  Eddy  is  compelled  to  scrape  down  amidst 
the  crags  and  rocks  of  the  ocean  bottom  for  a  perfect  example  of  her  doc- 
trine when  we  have  in  the  high  heavens  One  Who  patiently  suffered  and 
"left  us  an  example  that  we  should  follow  in  His  steps."  If  lobsters  could 
only  understand,  they  might  well  swell  with  pride  at  the  number  of  people 
in  the  world  who  are  trying  to  follow  in  their  footsteps  as  the  result  of  the 
free  advertising  given  their  virtues  by  Mrs.  Eddy. 

Now  you  will  understand  why  some  people  are  called  lobsters.  It  is  a 
genteel  epithet  for  an  ignoramus. — K.  L.  B. 

(IThe  King's  Business.) 


DELIVERED  FROM  THE  CASTOR  OIL  BOTTLE 

A  friend  of  ours,  a  few  Sundays  ago,  stopped  a  small  boy  on  the  street 
and  asked  him  what  Sunday  School  he  was  bound  for.  He  replied  that  he 
was  going  to  the  Christian  Science  Sunday  School.  "Do  you  like  to  go 
there?"  he  was  asked.  "Yes,"  repMed  the  boy.  "And  why?"  our  friend 
asked.     "Because,"  said  the  lad,  "I  don't  have  to  take  castor  oil  any  more." 

This  may  sound  to  some  like  a  joke,  but  the  boy  was  in  dead  earnest, 
and  there  is  a  point  that  wise  people  will  not  miss.  Why  is  it  that  the  boy 
is  no  longer  compelled  to  take  the  simple  remedies  that  any  child  occa- 
sionally needs?  Is  it  because  Christian  Science  now  serves  the  purpose — 
or  because  his  foolish  mother  cannot  now  consistently  recognize  the  medic- 
inal value  of  the  oil?  This  lad,  like  many  other  children  of  Eddyite  parents, 
may  be  left  to  die  for  the  want  of  one  of  the  simple  remedies  that  God  has 
put  in  the  earth  for  man'e  use.  One  of  the  most  appalling  things  about 
this  false  system  is  the  suffering  that  is  caused  to  innocent  children,  simply 
because  their  parents  have  been  duped.  Doctors  and  nurses  in  almost  every 
city  and  town  can  tell  the  awful  story  as  it  has  been  seen  again  and  again, 
w^^ere.  as  a  last  resort,  they  have  been  called  to  Christian  Science  homes. — 
K.  L.  B. 

(The  King's  Business). 


IT  WOULDN'T  GO  DOWN 

The  little  girl  came  running  in  to  her  mother  with  a  woeful  countenance 
and  a  hopeless  story. 

"My  dolly  is  sick,"  she  said,  "and  I  don't  know  what  to  do  about  it.  I 
g-ave  her  water  and  she  can't  swallow  that;  sister  gave  her  a  pill  and  she 
can't  swallow  that." 

"Well,"  said  her  mother,  who  leaned  a  little  that  way  herself,  "don't  you 
think  you  had  better  try  Christian  Science  for  her?" 

"We  have  tried  it,"  said  she,  "and  she  can't  swallow  that." 

(The  King's  Business). 


CAN  YOU  BEAT  IT? 

Here's  a  story  that  "takes  the  cake,"  but  it  must  be  true  for  it  is  recorded 
in  the  Christian  Science  Sentinel  of  May  10,  1919.  Under  the  heading  of 
*' Testimonies,"  a  contributor  says: 

—10— 


"One  morning  while  I  was  using  an  alcohol  lamp  a  fire  broke  out  on  my 
table.  Several  inflammable  articles  were  near  and  the  blaze  was  quite  high. 
I  left  the  room  to  get  water  but  could  find  nothing  in  which  to  fetch  it.  On 
returning  I  found  that  the  flames  had  increased.  The  window  curtains  were 
near,  and  my  fear  was  intense,  for  I  was  alone  in  a  stranger's  house.  I  cried 
out.  What  shall  I  do?  and  the  answer  came:  There  is  but  one  way.  Turn 
to  God.  I  stood  and  faced  the  flames,  knowing  that  matter  cannot  burn,  for 
all  is  infinite  Mind.  They  immediately  went  out.  1  had  used  no  material 
means  and  proved  that  'perfect  love  casteth  out  fear,'  for  on  page  586  of 
Science  and  Health  Mrs.  Eddy  has  interpreted  fire  as  *fear'." 

From  this  we  see  that  it  may  be  possible  shortly  to  do  away  with  our  fire 
departments  by  simply  recognizing  that  fire  cannot  bum.  If  we  could  have 
Christian  Science  practitioners  as  chiefs  for  our  fire  departments,  we  might 
be  saved  millions  of  dollars.  But  someone  may  ask,  "How  can  this  writer 
prove  the  truth  of  her  statements?  Would  she  be  willing  to  demonstrate 
again?"  It  is  something  like  Mrs.  Eddy's  story  about  the  apple  tree  she 
caused  to  blossom  in  mid-winter  by  simply  centering  her  thought  upon  it. 
Mone  ever  saw  it  but  herself  and  she  never  offered  to  blossom  out  another 
tree  to  substantiate  her  claim. 

(The  King's  Business.) 


A  LITTLE  SCRAP  BUT  NOTHING  TO  IT 

The  Christian  Scientists  do  believe  in  matter  after  all, — and  behold  how 
great  a  fire  a  little  financial  fire  hath  kindled.  The  estate  of  Mrs.  Mary 
Baker  G.  Eddy  is  reported  to  have  been  robbed  of  from  $25,000  to  $30,000  a 
year  by  some  of  her  followers.  There  has  been  a  scrap  among  the  trustees, 
so  says  a  Boston  dispatch.  The  poor  lady,  by  dint  of  strict  economy,  the  sale  of 
spoona  and  books,  and  the  conduct  of  classes  in  advanced  scientific  word- 
juggling,  scraped  together  about  two  and  one-half  millions,  and  now  some 
of  the  naughty  boys  who  were  appointed  to  look  after  her  interests  after  she 
passed  over  (or  under)  are  fighting  in  the  courts.  Shame  on  you,  naughty 
boys;  didn't  Mother  tell  you  that  money  was  only  an  error  of  mortal  mind  and 
now  you  have  gone  and  spoiled  it  all  by  scrapping  like  other  people  do  who 
have  never  been  taught  that;  "there  is  no  matter  and  God  never  created 
matter."  It  is  enough  to  cause  Mother  Eddy  to  rise  up  from  her  so-called 
grave  and  come  back  to  spank  some  of  you  directors  for  directing  attention 
to  this  matter  which  does  not  exist.  Well,  never  mind,  boys,  you  know  what 
she  said — "The  nothingness  of  nothing  is  nothing"  and  maybe  there  is  just 
nothing  the  matter  with  the  matter  after  all! — T.  C.  H. 

(The  King's  Business). 


CHAPTER  I. 

Christian  Scientist  Replies  to  Dr.  Conant's  Criticisms 

To  the  Record-Chronicle. 

In  your  issue  of  October  5th  appeared  some  criticisms  on  Christian 
Science,  by  Dr.  Conant,  which  are  unfair  to  Christian  Science  and  to  Mrs. 
Eddy,  its  founder  and  discoverer.  The  quotations  which  the  speaker  attrib- 
utes to  Mrs.  Eddy  are  generally  not  in  the  language  of  Mrs.  Eddy  as  given 
in  her  works.  The  unfairness  with  which  most  critics  of  Christian  Science 
strike  their  blow  is  recognized  by  intelligent  thinking  persons,  and  conse- 
quently their  criticisms  have  little  weight.  The  statement  that  Christian 
Science  is  "an  ancient  philosophy  that  denies  the  existence  of  matter,  and  a 
religion  that  denies  every  fundamental  teaching  of  the  Bible,"  is  wholly 
false.  The  truth  is,  Christian  Science  teaches  nothing  in  common  with  any 
"ancient  philosophy,"  and  it  is  in  harmony  with  all  the  fundamental  teachings 

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of  the  Bible.     Indeed,  Christian  Scientists  look  to  the  spiritual  interpreta- 
tions of  the  Scriptures  for  direction  and  guidance  in  all  things. 

Mrs.  Eddy's  teaching  in  regard  to  matter  is  nothing  novel  or  shocking, 
when  looked  at  intelligently.  She  refers  to  it  as  a  human  concept,  as  like- 
wise she  would  treat  disease,  sin,  etc.  Even  physicists  do  not  accept  what  is 
termed  matter  for  what  it  seems;  they  reduce  it  to  force  or  energy,  and  no 
one  is  amazed  at  this  theory. 

That  the  testimony  of  the  material  sense  cannot  be  relied  upon  for  what 
it  tells  one,  all  will  readily  agree.  The  horizon  and  the  sky  appear  to  meet 
out  there  in  the  distance,  but  this  is  not  true.  Th©  airplane  at  a  great  height 
appears  as  a  small  bird,  although  it  is  just  as  large  up  there  as  if  it  were  on 
the  ground  near  the  spectator. 

Christian  Science  does  teach  that  God  is  All,  the  only  Creator.  "I  am  the 
Lord,  and  there  is  none  else;  There  is  no  God  beside  me."  It  also  teaches 
tliat  God  is  good;  that  He  is  Love,  and  that  He  does  not  cognize  evil.  "Thou 
art  of  purer  eyes  than  to  behold  evil,  and  canst  not  look  on  iniquity."  God's 
creation,  including  man  made  in  God's  image  and  likeness,  as  Christian  Sci- 
ence teaches,  is  perfect,  eternal.  "And  God  saw  all  that  He  had  made  and 
behold  it  was  very  good;"  "All  things  were  made  by  Him  and  without  Him 
was  not  anything  made  that  was  made." 

Christian  Scientists  do  not  deny  that  sickness  and  sin  exist  as  sense 
phenomena,  but  they  do  deny  that  they  are  real  in  the  sense  of  being  God- 
ordained;  they  see  them  as  illusions  of  the  human  senses,  as  false  beliefs,  and 
God's  law  rightly  understood,  which  is  the  true  idea  of  life,  destroys  them. 
There  are  no  contradictions  or  inconsistencies  in  Mrs.  Eddy's  writings  to  one 
who  understands  these  writings.  The  only  evidence  that  these  teachings  are 
understood  is  the  ability  on  the  part  of  the  student  to  heal  disease  and  sin 
through  this  understanding.  It  is  cltearly  obvious  tnen,  that  any  one  who 
has  not  this  healing  ability  as  a  result  of  an  understanding  of  God's  Word 
as  interpreted  in  Christian  Science,  is  not  an  authorized  critic  of  the  sub- 
ject. Many  Bible  passages,  if  not  correctly  interpreted,  would  appear  to  be 
directly  in  opposition  one  to  the  other. 

Christian  Scientists  do  not  claim  to  work  miracles,  as  the  term  miracle  ' 
generally  understood;  they  do,  however,  claim  to  heal  the  sick  and  reform  the 
sinner  by  the  same  means  and  methods  as  did  the  Master.  Because  the  sick 
n  :vr '  r  '.ise'  up  and  given  a  new  lease  on  life  without  the  aid  of 
material  remedies,  the  modus  is  not  regarded  as  miraculous  by  Christian 
Scientists,  but  is  looked  upon  by  them  as  divinely  natural,  and  as  in  keeping 
with  the  statement  of  Jesus,  "Ye  shall  know  the  truth,  and  the  truth  shall 
make  you  free." 

BRIGMAN  C.  ODOM. 
Dallas,  Texas,  Oct.  16,  1920. 


CHAPTER  II. 

Dr.  Copeland  Replies  to  Christian  Scientist's  Criticism. 

To  the  Record-Chronicle. 

First  of  all  I  wish  to  say  that  Dr.  Conant  was  absolutely  fair  in  his  ex- 
posure of  Mrs.  Eddy's  absurdities,  as  he  quoted  the  exact  words  from  Science 
and  Health,  which  is  the  Christian  Scientist's  key  to  the  Scriptures. 

'    t-'ave  studied   Christian  Science   (so-called)   in  this  country  and  ot^^f^' 
and  I  have  this  moment  before  me  the  often-changed  book,  Science  and  Health, 
copyright  1917.     We  will  let  the  public  judge  whether  Dr.  Conant  and  I  are 
misrepresenting  this  cult. 

Mrs.  Eddy  did  not  discover  Christian     Science — In     Christian     Science 
Journal,  June,  1887,  she  says  before  her  visit  to  Dr.  Quimby,  in  1862,  she  kne 
nothing  of  the  science  of  mind  healing.     In  Boston  Post  March  7,  1883,  she 
says,  "We  made  our  first  experiment  in  mental  healing  in   1853."     In   Re- 

—12— 


trospection  and  Introspection,  P.  38,  she  says,  "It  was  in  Massachusetts  in 
February,  1866,  that  I  discovered  the  Science  of  definite  and  metaphysical 
healing-,  which  I  afterwards  named  Christian  Science."  In  Science  and  Health, 
edition  1875,  she  says,  "We  made  our  first  discovery  that  science  mentally 
applied  would  heal  the  sick  in  1864." 

Ei.a-hteen  sixty  two,  1853,  1866,  1864— which  date  please? 

Who  discovered  Christian  Science? 

As  a  fake  religion,  Mrs.  Eddy  is  the  sole  proprietor  and  no  one  disputes 
her  claim,  but  as  a  metaphysical  healing  not  one  tittle  belongs  to  her.  Ac- 
cording to  the  decision  of  the  courts,  as  proceedings  are  given  in  the  book 
"Life  of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,"  printed  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.,  she  stole 
her  stuff  from  one  P.  P.  Quimby's  manuscript,  title,  "Extracts  from  Dr.  P.  P. 
Quimby"  of  Maine  state  healing  fame,  which  system  he  called  Christian 
Science  as  far  back  as  1863. 

Lawsuits  seemed  a  popular  pastime  with  Mrs.  Eddy,  but  she  never  won 
one.  The  only  thing  she  proved  consistently  was  her  inability  to  tell  the 
truth.  Horace  Wentworth  possesses  the  Ms.  from  which  Mrs.  Eddy  copied 
her  doctrine.  This  was  also  proved  in  the  suit  she  made  against  McClure's 
Magazine  when  they  so  mercilessly  exposed  her  to  the  American  public. 

Mr.  Mesmer,  author  of  mesmerism  in  Paris  inocculated  Charles  Poyen 
with  his  teachings  and  he  came  to  America  in  1836.  His  followers  were 
A.  J.  Davis,  Fox  Sisters,  Laroy  Sunderland  and  P.  P.  Quimby,  all  of  which 
except  Quimby  went  off  into  spiritism,  and  he  was  imposed  upon  by  Mary 
Baker  Eddy  adopting  his  methods  and  passing  them  off  as  her  own.  Proof: 
See  McClure's  court  records. 

Pscychotherapy  is  known  to  be  as  ancient  as  the  Egyptians  and  Chald- 
eans. The  Egyptian  art  of  healing  by  mental  suggestions  is  spoken  of  by 
"Eber's  Papyrus,"  which  dates  back  to  1552,  B.  C.  This  system  of  healing 
was  also  used  by  Asclepiades,  the  well  known  physician  of  Rome  who  "in- 
duced trance"  to  perform  certain  cur^s.  Plato  called  it  "m,ind  cufe." 
Pomponatius,  Van  Hehnont,  Fludd  and  Maxwell  and  numerous  others  prac- 
ticed mental  healing.  India  has  always  practiced  it.  The  Gnostics  of  Greece  in 
the  second  century  B.  C,  claimed  to  have  discovered  the  "science  o^  the  un- 
iverse."   If  any  one  doubts  these  facts  I  have  a  library  full — come  over. 

The  Bible  or  Science  and  Health — which? 

S.  H.  p.  23  denies  the  atonement — "One  sacrifice,  however  great,  is  in- 
sufficient to  pay  the  debt  of  sin." 

Bible,  "He  put  away  sin  by  the  sacrifice  of  himself."    Heb.  9:26. 

S.  H.,  p.  46,  "Jesus  did  not  die." 

Bible,  "Christ  both  died  and  rose  again."    Rom.  14:9. 

S.  H.,  p.  83.    "Miracles  are  impossible  in  science." 

Bible,  "Many  believed  on  His  name  when  they  saw  the  miracle  that  he 
did."    John  2:23. 

S.  H.,  p.  335.    "God  never  created  matter." 

Bible,  "In  the  beginning  God  created  the  heaven  and  the  earth.    Gen   1-1. 

S.  H.,  p.  266.     "Man  co-exists  with  God." 

Bible,  "God  created  man."    Gen.  1:27. 

S.  H.,  p.  291.    "Heaven  is  not  a  locality." 

Bible,  "I  go  to  prepare  a  place  for  you."    John  14:2. 

S.  PL,  p.  280.     "Matter  is  unknown  in  the  infinitude  of  mind." 

Bible,  "He  is  the  Savior  of  the  body."     Eph.  5:23. 

S.  H.,  p.  280.     "Man  has  a  sensationless  body." 

Bible,  "She  felt  in  her  body  that  she  had  been  healed."    Mk   5:29 

S.  H.,  p.  311.    "In  reality  there  is  no  evil." 

Bible,  "Abhor  that  which  is  evil."     Rom.  12:9. 

S.  H.,  p.  468.     "The  soul  cannot  sin." 

Bible,  "The  soul  that  sinneth  it  shall  die."    Ezk.  18:4. 

S.  IL,  p.  201.    "No  final  judgment  awaits  mortals." 

t^"^^H  b^^oilv^^^^^"^^^  ""^^  ^^^  ^"^®  ^^  ^^^'  ^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^is  the  judg- 

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These  are  only  a  few  of  the  multiplied  thousands  of  absolute  absurdities 
of  the  Eddyites'  Bible  known  as  Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scrip- 
tures. If  anybody  in  Denton  doubts  these  statements  I  will  be  pleased  to 
g-ive  page  for  page  and  let  them  read  from  Science  and  Health  while  I  quote 
God's  verse  in  opposition.  It  is  a  matter  of  choosing  the  Bible  given  of  God 
or  accepting  a  cult  from  an  ignoramus  woman  who  never  graduated  from  a 
public  school. 

Why  did  Christian  Scientists  all  over  Los  Angeles  and  elsewhere  call 
physicians  thru  the  flu  epidemic?  Was  it  because  they  had  pain  in  their 
matter  or  a  conception  of  what  might  happen  if  they  relied  on  their  faith  in 
Science?  This,  is  hypocrisy  personified,  yes,  amazing.  Mrs.  Eddy  teaches 
that  God  is  a  principle — not  a  person.  The  writer  in  Monday's  Record- 
Chronicle  says  C.  S.  teaches  that  God  is  "creator."  Creator  of  what,  since 
paragraph  two  of  said  article  states  plainly  that  there  is  no  matter?  and 
asks  us  not  to  be  amazed  at  the  theory.  I  am  amazed  at  such  logic  or  rather 
at  such  twaddle.  Odom  mentions  the  fact  of  an  airplane  flying  thru  air. 
How  could  there  be  an  airplane  if  there  is  no  matter? 

The  writer  intimates  that  most  people  who  oppose  Christian  Science  lack 
intelligence  and  fair-mindedness.  I  am  just  wondering  if  the  pastors  of 
Denton  are  thought  to  be  ignoramuses  by  their  respective  churches  because 
they  oppose  C.  S.  If  anybody  that  knows  reason  from  hallucination  will  be 
square  I  can  show  them  almost  as  many  contradictions  in  Mrs.  Eddy's  writ- 
ings as  she  makes  paragraphs.  Scientists  blow  up  like  bubbles  when  one 
throws  the  light  of  reason  on  their  arguments. 

Mrs.  Eddy  and  many  of  her  followers  do  claim  to  work  miracles  and  I 
have  their  statements  to  this  effect,  both  by  hearing  and  the  printed  page. 
Yes,  C.  S.  does  claim  to  heal  the  sick  and  reform  the  sinner,  but  Jesus 
''raised  the  dead"  and  told  Nicodemus  that  "he  must  be  bom  from  above." 
John  3:3-5.  Why  does  C.  S.  claim  to  work  healings  like  the  "master"  and 
tiien  relegate  that  master  to  the  scrap  heap  of  their  own  silly  fancies  ?  Why 
not  be  a  clean  mental  sport?  Why  put  out  such  dope,  friend  Odom,  that  is 
fairly  odorous  with  inconsistencies  that  would  pain  a  grammar  school  essay- 
ist? Come  again.  The  water  is  fine.  I  am  rearing  to  go.  I  want  the  public  to 
judge  between  the  truth,  the  Bible  and  the  C.  S.  delusion. 

ANTONIO  REILLY  COPELAND, 

Pastor   Central   Presbyterian   Cliurch 
Denton,  Texas,  Oct.  19,  1920. 


CHAPTER  III. 
Mr.  Odom  Replies  to  Mr.  Copeland 

To  the  Record-Chronicle: 

The  article  by  Dr.  Antonio  Reilly  Copeland,  denouncing  Christian 
Science  and  its  discoverer  and  founder,  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  which  appeared 
in  the  October  19  issue  of  your  paper,  was  brought  to  the  attention  of  the 
v/riter  some  days  ago.  On  account  of  other  pressing  duties  it  has  been  im- 
possible to  make  an  earlier  reply. 

No  attempt  will  be  made  to  answer  in  detail  the  assertions  of  Dr.  Cope- 
land, for  what  he  has  written  are  only  assertions,  not  facts.  The  declarations 
of  the  Denton  Critic  are  based  upon  Mark  Twain's  ebullitions  on  Christian 
Science  and  the  McClure  Magazine  articles.  To  those  who  are  informed  it  is 
well  known  that  Mark  Twain  and  the  McClure  Magazine  were  both  the  avow- 
ed enemies  of  Christian  Science  and  Mrs.  Eddy,  and  any  fair-minded  person 
Vv'ill  grant  that  it  is  impossible  to  gain  a  true  estimate  of  the  character  and 
life  work  of  any  reformer  through  that  reformer's  enemies.  The  McClure 
Magazine  articles  concerning  Mrs.  Eddy  are  in  no  sense  true,  but  wholly 
unjust  and  malicious.     ThosQ  who  are  interested  and  wish  the  truth  as  to 

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the  life  and  character  of  Mrs.  Eddy  are  referred  to  the  Life  of  Mary  Baker 
Eddy  by  Sibyl  Wilbur,  now  Sibyl  Wilbur  O'Brien.  This  book  is  published 
by  the  Concord  Publishing  Company,  New  York. 

The  critic  says  he  has  studied  Christian  Science  in  this  country  and  in 
other  countries.  So  have  infidels  read  and  studied  the  Bible,  but  we  are  sure 
he  would  not  accept  their  interpretation  of  the  Bibl'e. 

For  the  correct  teaching*  of  Christian  Science  the  inquirer  is  asked  to 
read  the  latest  revisions  of  Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures, 
by  Mary  Baker  Eddy  and  her  other  works.  The  correct  dates  of  the  several 
revisions  of  Science  and  Health  are  as  follows:  1890,  1804,  1901,  1902,  1906. 
In  these  revisions  no  material  changes  were  made  only  such  re-arrangement 
of  form  as  seemed  expedient  and  such  slight  modification  of  phraseology  as 
would  convey  a  clearer  sense  of  the  author's  meaning.  It  is  certainly  noth- 
ing to  the  discredit  of  an  author  that  his  book  is  revised.  Many  books  un- 
dergo revision  now  and  then,  and  no  one  objects  to  it. 

The  life  of  Mrs.  Eddy  just  referred  to  and  all  her  other  works  may  be 
read  in  Christian  Science  Reading  Rooms,  wherever  Christian  Scientists  are 
organized  as  churches  or  societies,  or  they  may  be  purchased  at  the  same 
places. 

There  is  nothing  in  common  between  Christian  Science  and  mesmerism. 
In  Science  and  Health  Mrs.  Eddy  devotes  one  whole  chapter  to  denouncing 
Mesmer's  theory.  In  this  chapter  she  makes  the  distinct  cleavage  between 
the  workings  of  the  unbridled  human  will  or  mesmerism  and  the  prayer  of 
faith  or  spiritual  understanding.  It  is  impossible,  therefore,  that  Christian 
Science  could  have  been  discovered  by  Phineas  P.  Quimby,  who  was  the  dis- 
ciple of  Mesmer  and  that  Mrs.  Eddy  stole  her  teachings  from  Quimby,  as  the 
critic  avers. 

It  is  true  that  Mrs.  Eddy  did  enter  some  suits  at  law,  when  it  was  just 
and  right  to  do  so,  but  so  far  as  the  writer's  memory  serves  him,  she  was 
Victorious  in  every  case  in  which  she  was  a  party.  It  was  necessary  for  her 
to  appeal  to  the  law  to  protect  her  copyrights.  In  the  "next  friend's"  suit 
a  few  years  prior  to  her  passing  the  decision  was  in  Mrs.  Eddy's  favor.  Her 
will  was  contested  in  the  courts  and  the  contestants  lost  on  every  point. 

Any  logical  thinker  detects  at  once  the  futility  of  the  attempt  to  give  one 
a  clear  idea  of  any  subject  by  quoting  detached  sentences  here  and  there 
from  its  text  book.  This  method  is  unfair  and  misleading.  Such  is  the 
manner  of  criticism  our  brother  has  made  on  Christian  Science.  The  charge 
of  the  Reverend  Mr.  Copeland  that  "the  only  thing  that  Mrs.  Eddy  proved 
consistently  v/as  her  inability  to  tell  the  truth"  is  as  unkind  and  cruel  as  it 
is  untrue;  and  that  the  epithet  "ignoramus,"  as  applied  to  a  woman  of  Mrs. 
Eddy's  intellect  and  dignity  is  unfitting  and  ill-ciiosen  is  shov/n  by  the  fol- 
lowing testimonial  of  the  Reverend  Enoch  Corser,  who  for  many  years  was 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Tilton,  New  Hampshire,  of  which 
church  Mrs.  Eddy  was  a  member.  Speaking  of  Mrs.  Eddy  when  she  was  a 
girl,  he  said  that  she  was  "bright,  good  and  pure,  aye,  brilliant."  He  fur- 
ther said,  "I  never  before  had  a  pupil  with  such  depth  and  independence  of 
thought.  She  has  some  great  future;  mark  that.  She  is  a  natural  and  spirit- 
ual genius." 

Speaking  of  her  early  studies,  Mrs.  Eddy  writes,  in  Retrospection  and 
Introspection:  "At  ten  years  of  age  I  was  as  familiar  with  Lindley  Murray's 
Grammar  as  v/ith  the  Westminster  Catechism,  and  the  latter  I  had  to  repeat 
every  Sunday.  My  favorite  studies  were  Natural  Philosophy,  Logic  and 
Moral  Science.  From  my  brother,  Albert,  I  received  lessons  in  tlie  ancient 
tongues.  Hebrew,  Greek  and  Latin.  In  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  and 
Miscellany,  she  says:  "All  my  father's  daughters  were  given  an  academic 
education  sufficiently  advanced  so  that  all  taught  school  acceptably  at  va- 
rious times  and  places.  My  brother  Albert,  was  a  distinguished  lawyer.  In 
;   addition  to  my  academic  training  I  was  privately  tutored  by  him.     He  was  a 

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member  of  the  New  Hampshire  Legislature  and  was  nominated  for  Congress 
but  died  before  the  election." 

The  following  editorial  comments  show  the  veneration  and  regard  felt 
toward  Mrs.  Eddy  by  the  unbiased,  unprejudiced  thinkers  of  her  day.  Speak- 
ing of  her  the  Baltimor(^  Sun  says:  "Her  place  in  history  as  one  of  the 
really  extraordinary  women  of  her  day,  is  secure."  The  Philadelphia  Public 
Ledger  states:  "To  create  such  a  church  and  to  inspire  a  following  so 
numerous  and  so  devoted,  Mrs.  Eddy  must  have  been  a  woman  of  altogether 
extraordinary  personal  endowments."  The  Chicago  Tribune  writes:  "Mrs. 
Eddy  has  not  swept  into  her  church  myriads  of  the  unthinking  and  unedu- 
cated. On  the  contrary  her  teachings  have  appealed  to  the  higher  classes, 
and  the  level  of  character  of  the  Christian  Scientists  is  every  where  high. 

Many  more  such  statements  from  the  press  might  be  given,  evidencing 
the  high  esteem  in  which  Mrs.  Eddy  was  held  by  her  contemporaries. 

BRIGMAN  C.  ODOM. 
Dallas,  Texas,  Nov.  2,  1920. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

Mr.  Copeland  Again  Replies  to  Mr.  Odom. 

Nov.  8,  1920. 
To  the  Record-Chronicl.e. 

Thanks  to  the  American  turn  of  mind  which  does  not  accept  pleasing, 
pious,  ponderous  platitudinous  sophistries  for  facts  without  investigation  or 
at  least  some  reasonable  line  of  argument  for  a  religion  whose  author  claims 
divine  revelation  even  tho  her  divine  writings  were  often  revised.  Mrs. 
Eddy  repeatedly  claimed  divine  inspiration.  Does  God  need  a  revision  ? 
If  not  then  Mrs.  Eddy  did  need  to  revise  her  writings  and  did  it  each  time  to 
her  own  liking.    Mr.  Odom  himself  admitting  this  fact — accidently. 

Revelation  cannot  be  improved  upon.  If  God  gave  Mrs.  Eddy  C.  S.  as  she 
emphatically  declared,  don't  you  see  that  every  revision  made  reflects  on 
God's  character?  My  Bible  tells  me  that  God  is  unchangeable,  Mai.  3:6,  and 
that  Christ  my  Savior,  is  also  unchangeable,  Heb.  13:8.  Why  blindly  follow  a 
book  that  the  author  saw  fit  to  change  at  will?  The  Bible  needs  no  revision. 
Isa.  40:8. 

The  writer  attempts  to  divert  the  readers'  minds  from  the  facts  by  say- 
ing that  he  would  not  attempt  to  answer  in  detail  the  "assertions"  of  Dr. 
Copeland,  when  I  gave  authority  for  everything  that  I  wrote. 

Does  Mr.  Odom  back  up  a  single  statement  by  facts  in  either  of  his  ar- 
ticles?    Well,  I  am  willing  to  let  the  public  judge. 

First  of  all  Mr.  Odom  blunders  about  Mark  Twain's  writing.  I  quoted 
nothing  from  him.  Second,  he  denies  court  procedure  and  cries  "enemy." 
Tins  reminds  me  of  Pat's  crying  in  court,  crying  because  he  was  afraid  the 
Judge  would  give  him  justice.     Is  it  persecution  to  tell  the  truth? 

Mr.  Odom  says  that  you  cannot  get  a  true  estimate  of  a  reformer  thru 
their  enemies  when  everybody  knows  that  I  gave  Mrs.  Eddy's  own  words 
from  her  divine  (?)  book  revision  extra.  Sybil  Wilbur's  book  on  Mrs. 
Eddy  is  recommended  by  Mr.  Odom.  I  am  wondering  if  he  isn't  a  bit  like 
the  old  farmer  that  put  on  green  spectacles  and  then  thot  his  wife  and  child- 
ren had  all  turned  green,  because  he  was  looking  at  them  from  a  hig)hly 
colored  view-point. 

Yes,  I  have  studied  C.  S.  here  and  elsewhere  and  I  have  also  studied 
what  infidels  say  about  the  Bible  and  I  reject  what  they  say  along  with 
what  Mrs.  Eddy  and  her  devotees  say,  for  both  reject  the  Christ  of  the  Bible 
and  the  atonement  made  for  man's  sin  by  the  Christ  of  the  Bible,  S.  H.  p.  23. 
"One  sacrifice,  however  great,  is  insufficient  to  pay  the  debt  of  sin."  See 
Heb.  9:26.    Anyway  what  did  Mrs.  Eddy  ever  reform?     Most  of  her  followers 

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are  ex-church  members.  A  true  church  makes  its  own  converts.  A  false 
church  steals  them.  C.  S.  claims  to  make  her  followers  very  happy  and 
largely  free  from  the  ordinary  ills  of  life.  They  all  get  angry  when  you  argue 
with  them,  and  if  you  get  the  best  of  it  thru  facts  they  cry  persecution.  As  to 
sickness — I  have  been  with  them  on  the  Atlantic,  Mediterranean  and  English 
Channel  and  we  all  leaned  over  the  rails  alike  to  feed  the  sharks.  Probably 
it  was  to  them — just  mind — but  it  sounded  like  "matter"  to  the  ordinary  un- 
initiated, matter  of  fact  sort  of  a  chump  like  myself.  Mr.  Odom  says  my 
statements  concerning  Mrs.  Eddy  as  a  reformer  are  unjust  and  malicious  and 
in  no  sense  true,  yet  he  hasn't  the  courage  or  rather  lacks  the  brain  or  facts 
in  the  case  to  disprove  one  thing  said  about  her. 

I  have  the  very  latest  revision  of  Science  and  Health  to  which  Mr.  Odom 
refers— saying  one  could  get  a  correct  view  of  her  teaching  in  it.  Well,  here 
goes— 1917  model  with  1906  revision,  self-starter,  plus  a  tail  light,  minus 
back  fire  with  keenest  patent  on  revelation.  Marriage:  Mrs.  Eddy  teaches 
that  Generation  Without  Marriage  Is  Possible  in  Science.  S.  H.  p.  68.  "Pro- 
portionately as  human  generation  ceases  the  unbroken  links  of  eternal  har- 
nionius  being  will  be  spiritually  discerned."  Christ  says  that  marriage  is 
the  foundation  of  society.     See  Math.  19:3-6. 

Again  Mrs.  Eddy  says  on  p.  64,  "Until  it  is  learned  that  God  is  the 
Father  of  all,  marriage  will  continue."  Christian  Science  teaches  that  mar- 
riage is  "synonymous  with  legalized  lust."  See  Christian  Science  Sentinel, 
June  16,  1906,  also  Christian  Science  Journal,  July,  1906.  Mrs,  Eddy  seemed 
to  have  enjoyed  the  lust  experience  as  she  was  thrice  married.  Two  of  her 
hubbys  died  or  rather  thot  they  died  and  took  a  celestial  vacation  and  to  date 
have  not  returned.  One  of  her  husbands,  an  itinerant  dentist,  Mr.  Patterson, 
beat  it  while  the  beating  was  good,  and  gave  Mrs.  Eddy  a  divorce  before  she 
changed  her  mind,  for  fear  she  might  back  out.  So  far  as  I  know,  no  mar- 
riage has  ever  been  solemnized  in  a  Christian  Science  church.  Mrs.  Eddy 
calls  children  "sensual  and  mortal  beliefs."  P.  561,  75th  edition  revised.  This 
is  an  insult  to  every  virtuous  mother  in  Denton  and  in  all  the  world. 

Again  this  "fake"  reformer  says:  "Until  it  is  learned  that  generation 
rests  on  no  sexual  basis,  let  marriage  continue."    P.  274,  75th  edition  revised. 

Can  anybody  show  greater  blasphemy  in  any  heathen  religion  than  in 
Christian  Science  so-called? 

In  1890,  Mrs.  Woodbury,  a  noted  follower  of  Mrs.  Eddy,  gave  birth  to  a 
son  which  she  claimed  was  a  result  of  an  Immaculate  Conception  therefore 
an  exemplification  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  theory  of  "mental  generation "  Mrs 
Woodbury  made  the  son  call  her  husband  "Frank."  She  named  the  child 
Prince  of  Peace"  and  baptized  him  at  Ocean  Point,  Maine,  in  a  pool  which 
she  called  Bethsaida. 

Later  Mrs.  Eddy  and  Mrs.  Woodbury  fell  out  as  no  one  got  on  well  with 
Mrs.  Eddy  very  long.  The  whole  thing  was  exposed.  It  developed  that  Mrs. 
Eddy  taught  that  "women  could  become  mothers  by  a  supreme  effort  of 
their  own  minds."  God  deliver  American  homes  from  such  teachin"-  This 
is  a  charming  doctrine  for  respectful  people  to  accept  isn't  it? 

"Christian  Science  as  a  Philosophy"  never  passed  the  kinderp-arten  stage 
For  instance,  "Cold"  Mrs.  Eddy  says  is  a  "thing  of  the  imagination."  P.  78, 
164th  edition.    Why  did  she  wear  furs  ? 

"Thirst  "  she  says  "is  only  imaginary."  P.  383,  164th  edition.  Why  did 
she  drink?  "Sight"  she  says  "is  not  a  thing  of  the  eve;  the  eye  is  a  delusion 
rnd  its  disease  a  vain  imagination."  P.  250,  164th  edition.  Why  did  she 
v/ear  glasses? 

Hold  Your  Breath — She  says  "Christian  Science  is  warranted  to  "grow 
teeth  at  ninety."  P.  143,  164th  edition.     Who  paid  her  dentist  bills? 

"Food,"  she  declares,  "neither  strengthens  nor  weakens  the  body."  P  118 
lt;4th  edition.     I  wonder  why  she  ate  three  squares  daily. 

Absurdity  personified— Listen,  she  declares  that  C.  S.  is  able  to  replace 

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a  man's  lost  leg,  "not  with  an  artificial  one,  but  with  a  genuine  one."     P. 
4S5,  164th  edition. 

Personally,  this  sounds  more  like  the  ravings  of  a  lunatic  than  knowledge 
coming  from  one  whom  Mr.  Odom  says  could  read  Greek,  Latin,  Hebrew,  etc. 

She  says  there  is  no  power  in  a  drug  but  only  in  the  belief  about  the 
drug.  P.  177,  164th  edition.  Why  should  strychnine  kill  a  dog  that  has  no 
belief  about  such  matter? 

Mark  Twain,  Bill  Nye  and  Josh  Billings  at  their  best  never  excelled  Ma 
Eddy's  writings  as  a  specimen  of  horse  play  joking.  Much  of  the  "Glossary" 
in  Science  and  Health  would  furnish  suitable  material  for  a  comic  paper, 
yet  Christian  Scientists  commit  it  to  memory  as  tho  it  were  valuable 
knowledge,  Mr.  Odom  included  among  them. 

If  Mr.  Odom's  article  wasn't  so  much  like  "Aunt  Mandy's  Spectator" 
which  proved  to  be  a  "rotten  potato."  I  would  unravel  more  of  his  potato 
bed. 

Now  as  to  whether  I  am  unkind,  and  cruel  and  untrue  in  calling  Mrs. 
Ilddy  an  "ignoramus"  as  Mr.  Odom  accuses  me  of  being,  I  will  let  the  public 
decide  in  the  light  of  facts — not  "hot  air." 

Now  as  to  proof  so  called — cited  by  Mr.  Odom  concerning  Mrs.  Eddy's 
belated  dignity  and  postmortem  learning,  I  will  say  that  if  people  can  swallow 
such  bunco  as  she  put  out  and  as-  I  have  quoted  from  her  writings,  giving 
page,  etc.,  then  it  should  be  no  trouble  for  the  Chronicle  Editor  to  prove 
consistently  that  "hell  is  an  iceberg." 

It  is  certain  that  Mrs.  Eddy  never  studied  logic  or  else  she  failed  to  give 
any  evidence  of  it  in  her  writings.  Judging  the  logic  of  her  defenders  it 
is  still  an  unknown  text  among  her  devotees.  Truth  seems  scarce  and  hon- 
esty at  a  premium  when  facts  are  wantonly  ignored,  such  as  have  been  given 
in  Chronicle  concerning  this  spurious  religious  cult.  You  cannot  judge  a  cult 
by  its  founder.  If  so  Mrs.  Eddy  compared  with  Mohammed  is  a  pigmy.  Edu- 
cation doesn't  win  salvation.  Salvation  is  by  grace,  Eph.  2:8-9.  "The  world 
by  wisdom  knew  not  God."     1  Cor,  1:21. 

Christianity  is  the  only  true  religion,  because  it  is  the  only  religion  that 
bases  its  claim  of  acceptance  on  the  "resurrection  of  its  founder — Christ." 
Mrs.  Eddy  is  dead  but  she  hasn't  risen  from  the  dead  yet,  neither  has  Moham- 
med, Confucius  or  any  others.  If  there  is  occasion  to  write  again  I  shall  be 
j.ieased  to  expose  C.  S.  on  the  basis  of  Science  and  see  whether  it  is  Scien- 
tific as  we  have  clearly  seen  that  it  is  wholly  unbiblical,  unchristian  and  un- 
philosophical. 

In  conclusion  I  suggest  that  Mr.  Odom  read  Job.  15:2,  "Shall  a  wise  man 
utter  vain  knowledge  and  fill  his  belly  with  the  east  wind?" 

A.  REILLY  COPELAND,  Pastor, 

Central  Presbyterian  Church. 


CHAPTER  V. 

Replies  to  Criticisms  of  Christian  Science 
To  the  Record-Chronicle. 

DALLAS,  Texas,  November  15,  1920. — Thanks  are  due  the  Denton  critic 
of  Christian  Science  and  of  Mrs.  Eddy  for  his  application  of  the  term  "pious" 
to  our  reply  to  his  last  attack.  Since  piety  is  the  order  of  things  his  minis- 
terial labors  are  intended  to  promote,  it  must  be  gratifying  to  the  minister 
that  even  a  Christian  Scientist  has  manifested  this  much-coveted  quality  of 
divine  intelligence.  Piety  implies  the  absence  of  cheap  wit,  vitriolic  abuse, 
slang  phrases,  ridicule,  and,  as  it  were,  "playing  to  the  galleries"  in  a  dis- 
course on  religious  questions.  It  was  practiced  by  Mrs.  Eddy,  and  also  en- 
joined upon  her  followers  in  these  statements:  "If  you  are  stoned  from 
the  pulpit,  say  in  your  heart  as  the  devout  St.  Stephen  said:  'Lord,  lay  not 
this  sin  to  their  charge' "(1900  Message,  p.  14).     "However  despitefully  used 

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and  misrepresented  by  the  churclies  or  the  press,  in  return  employ  no  vio- 
lent invective,  and  do  good  unto  your  enemies  Vv^hen  the  opportunity  occurs" 
(Manual,  p.  41).  Mrs.  Eddy  lived  the  spirit  of  these  words,  thereby  ex- 
emplifying ii  "salvation  that  is  by  grace."  Christian  Scientists  never  at- 
tack, either  from  their  pulpits  or  through  the  press,  the  religious  teachings 
of  their  neighbors,  but  are  willing  that  all  theories  in  regard  to  God  be  put 
to  the  test  of  demonstration  and  rise  or  fall  on  their  own  merit.  Religious 
sects  of  today,  in  their  attitude  toward  each, other,  might  profitably  exercise 
the  spirit  of  tolerance  expressed  by  the  Pharisee  Gamaliel  in  the  first  cen- 
tury. Speaking  of  the  teaching  of  our  Master,  he  said,  "If  this  counsel,  or 
this  work  be  of  men,  it  will  come  to  naught,  but  if  it  be  of  God,  ye  cannot 
overthrow  it." 

Christian  Science  accepts  the  Bible  teaching  that  God  is  unchangeable, 
yea,  without  "shadow  of  turning"  (James  1:17);  that  God  is  Truth  (Deut. 
32:4).  Mrs.  Eddy  says,  in  Science  and  Health,  p.  109,  "The  revelation  of 
Truth  in  the  understanding  came  to  me  gradually,  and  apparently  through 
divine  power."  Because  this  Truth  unfolded  to  Mrs.  Eddy  gradually  it  was 
necessary  for  her  to  revise  her  book  in  order  to  give  accurate  expression  to 
this  clearer  concept  of  Truth,  God.  God  does  not  change,  nor  does  His  truth, 
but  mortals  do  gain  spiritually  clearer  views  of  Him  by  utilizing  His  truth 
in  healing  sickness  and  sin  in  Christ's  name.  It  was  this  clearer  knowledge 
of  God  that  Mrs.  Eddy  was  constantly  striving  to  reveal  to  a  suffering,  sin- 
sick  world  as  a  panacea  for  its  woes.  That  the  world  recognized  its  need  for 
an  interpretation  of  Jesus'  teaching  that  would  heal  the  sick,  is  shown  by 
the  reception  the  world  has  given  to  the  Christian  Science  text-book  so  rid- 
iculed by  our  friend.  In  spite  of  (or  perhaps  on  account  of)  criticism  from 
the  pulpit  of  the  nature  of  those  recently  appearing  in  the  columns  of  the 
Record-Chronicle,  the  text-book  of  Christian  Science  has  the  largest  circula- 
tion of  any  book  in  the  world  except  the  Bible.  It  has  been  translated  into 
German  and  French,  and  has  a  wide  circulation  in  Germany  and  France;  it 
is  to  be  found  in  the  public  libraries  of  the  principal  cities,  colleges  and 
universities  of  America,  Great  Britain,  France,  Germany,  Russia,  Greece, 
Japan,  India  and  China;  in  the  Oxford  University  and  Victoria  Institute;  in 
the  Academy  of  Greece,  and  in  the  Vatican  at  Rome;  it  is  also  to  be  found 
in  state  prisons  everywhere.  Its  influence  is  already  observed  on  the  sermons, 
Sunday  School  and  literature  of  every  country  where  the  teaching  is  dis- 
seminated. This  wide  circulation  of  Science  and  Health  is  due  to  the  fact 
that  hundreds  of  thousands  of  people  have  been  healed  of  so-called  incurable 
diseases  and  vicious  habits  through  the  understanding  and  application  of  its 
teachings.     Jesus  said,  "By  their  fruits  ye  shall  know  them." 

In  Science  and  Health,  p.  110,  Mrs. Eddy  writes:  "No  human  pen  nor 
tongue  taught  me  the  Science  contained  in  this  book.  Science  and  Health, 
and  neither  tongue  nor  pen  can  overthrow  it."  Christian  Scientists  are  con- 
stantly having  proofs  of  the  truth  of  these  words.  Every  uncalled-for  as- 
sault, such  as  the  one  in  question  upon  Christian  Science,  serves  to  awaken 
an  interest  in  its  teachings,  redounds  to  the  good  of  the  cause,  in  that  it 
cr.uses  fair-minded  people  to  desire  a  consecutive  reading  of  a  world-famed 
book,  which  critics  are  endeavoring  to  overthrow  by  superficial  criticism. 
If  the  book  were  not  transforming  the  religious  thought  of  the  era  these 
efforts  would  not  be  made  to  drown  its  message  with  the  dragon's  roar. 

Sibyl  Wilbur'3  viewpoint,  in  writing  the  Life  of  Mrs.  Eddy,  was  entirely 
unbiased.  She  was  not  interested  in  Christian  Science  when  beginning  her 
research  for  the  facts  concerning  Mrs.  Eddy,  but  through  learning  these 
facts  became  so  impressed  by  the  remarkable  character  of  its  founder  that 
she  became  a  devout  student  of  Christian  Science.  Mrs.  Eddy  has  given  the 
facts  concerning  her  own  life  in  an  autobiography  entitled  "Restrospection 
and  Introspection."  Thes3  two  sources  of  information  have  as  yet  not  been 
utilized  by  our  critic,  who  has  seemed  to  prefer  a  source  antagonistic  to 
Christian  Science   (McClure's  Magazine)  for  his  so-called  data.     Those  who 

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wish  the  true  historj'  of  Mrs.  Eddy  are  referred  to  these  two  books. 

Christian  Scientists  do  not  proselyte;  they  make  no  effort  to  gain  mem- 
bers from  other  churches.  They  only  strive  to  live  godly,  Christian  lives, 
gaining  by  degrees  greater  immunity  from  sickness  and  sin  than  they  have 
known  before.  If  by  this  means  their  friends  become  interested  to  know  the 
cause  of  their  transformed  lives  they  gladly  share  with  these  friends  the 
good  news  of  the  healing  Christ.  If  two  farmers  have  adjoining  pastures, 
one  of  which  is  well  kept,  green  and  inviting,  while  the  other  is  barren,  poorly 
watered  and  sere,  surely  the  farmer  with  the  poor  grazing  should  not  con- 
demn his  neighbor  if  his  own  cows  should  break  the  fence  to  enjoy  the 
neighbor's  better-kept  pasture.  Christian  Scientists  do  not  claim  complete 
immunity  from  sickness  or  sin;  they  claim  merely  that  Christian  Science  has 
made  them  better  physically  and  morally  than  they  were  before  learning 
and  applying  its  truths. 

The  grounds  upon  which  Mrs.  Eddy  procured  the  divorce  from  Dr.  Pat- 
terson was  adultery.  I  have  read  the  affidavit  of  a  man  with  whom  Dr.  Pat- 
terson boarded  after  the  divorce,  in  which  the  man  states  that  Dr.  Patterson 
always  spoke  of  his  wife  as  a  pure  Christian  woman,  saying  that  the  cause 
of  the  separation  was  v/holly  his  fault,  and  that  if  he  had  lived  rightly  he 
could  have  had  a  pleasant,  happy  home. 

The  purpose  of  the  chapter  on  marriage  in  Science  and  Health  is  to  lift 
haman  thought  to  a  more  spiritual  sense  of  marriage  relation,  in  which  the 
spiritual  dominates  the  animal,  thereby  producing  an  improved  progeny, 
greater  chastity,  purity,  health  and  harmony  in  homes,  greater  fidelity  to  the 
marriage  covenant,  lessening  the  frequency  of  divorce  and  bringing  about 
a  greater  stability  in  society.  Surely  no  one  would  deny  that  there  are  cir- 
cumstances in  v/hich  marriage  is  synonymous  vv'ith  legalized  lust,  such  con- 
ditions being  largely  responsible  for  the  horrible  home  relations  sometimes 
existing,  and  the  divorce  scourge  menacing  our  nation. 

In  regard  to  the  Woodbury  matter,  these  are  the  facts:  On  nccount  of 
Mrs.  Woodbury's  claim  and  experience  she  was  sternly  rebuked  by  Mrs.  Eddy 
and  excommunicated  from  the  Christian  Science  church.  In  Science  and 
Health,  p.  68,  Mrs.  Eddy  says:  "The  perpetuation  of  the  floral  species  by 
bud  or  cell  division  is  evident,  but  I  discredit  the  belief  that  agamogenesis 
applies  to  the  human  species."  And  again,  on  page  57,  ''Marriage  is  the  legal 
and  moral  provision  for  generation  among  human  kind." 

Christian  Scientists  wear  furs,  have  fires,  eat,  drink,  go  to  dentists  when 
necessary  just  like  other  people.  This  does  not  at  all  conflict  with  Christian 
Science  teaching,  inasmuch  as  the  truths  of  Christian  Science  are  demon- 
strated by  degrees.  One  does  not  expect  a<  pupil  in  the  rudiments  of  the 
science  of  mathematics  to  solve  problems  in  Euclid^  neither  should  the  be- 
ginner in  Science  of  Life,  God,  be  expected  to  demonstrate  all  of  this  Science 
in  a  day.  In  Science  and  Health,  p.  254,  we  read:  "To  stop  eating,  drinking, 
or  being  clothed  materially  before  the  spiritual  facts  of  existence  are  gained 
step  by  step,  is  not  legitimate." 

Christian  Scientists  are  grateful  for  having  less  fear  of  food,  air,  water, 
exposure,  germs,  for  better  digestion,  for  being  able  to  take  less  thought  for 
their  body,  what  they  shall  put  on,  etc.,  in  consequence  of  the  little  they  have 
learned  so  far  of  the  Science  of  Life,  and  rejoice  in  the  hope  of  greater  free- 
dom in  the  day  of  perfect  understanding.  "It  would  be  foolish,"  writes  Mrs. 
Eddy,  on  page  388  of  Science  and  Health,  "to  venture  beyond  our  present  un- 
derstanding, foolish  to  stop  eating  until  we  gain  perfection  and  a  clear  com- 
prehension of  the  living  Spirit." 

The  charge  of  our  friend  that  both  Mrs.  Eddy  and  lier  devotees  reject 
"the  Christ  of  the  Bible"  and  the  atonement  made  for  nrm's  si!i  h\r  "tho 
Christ  of  the  Bible,"  is  fully  answered  throughout  all  Mrs.  Eddy's  writings. 
These  statements  alone  in  Science  and  Health,  page  497,  stron'.^fy  refut-  the 
critic's  contention,  on  the  points  just  mentioned:  "We  acknowledge  and 
adore  one  supreme  and  infinite  God.     We  acknowledge  His  Son,  one  Christ; 

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the  PToly  Ghost  of  divine  Comforter;  and  man  in  God's  image  and  likeness." 
"We  acknowledge  Jesus'  atonement  as  the  evidence  of  divine,  efficacious 
Love,  unfolding  man's  unity  vi'ith  God  through  Christ  Jesus  the  Way-shower; 
?nd  we  acknowledge  that  man  is  saved  through  Christ,  through  Truth,  Life 
and  Love  as  demonstrated  by  the  Galilean  Prophet  in  healing  the  sick  and 
overcoming  sin  and  death."  The  names  Christ,  Jesus,  Jesus  the  Christ,  and 
Christ  Jesus  are  honored  by  all  Christian  Scientists,  and  they  accept  the 
teachings  of  the  Christ  as  given  in  the  Bible  and  endeavor  to  put  them  into 
practice  daily. 

BRIGMAN  C.  ODOM, 
606  American  Exchange  Bldg.,  Dallas,  Texas. 


CHAPTER  VL 

Christian   (?)   Science  vs.  Piety  and  Common  Sense 

To  the  Record-Chronicle. 

Denton,  Texas,  December  3,  1920. 

Once  upon  a  time  a  "pious"  possum  bit  a  green  persimmon  which  proved 
to  be  neither  savor  nor  savory  to  his  gustatory  saliva,  hence  his  indulgent 
wife  humored  his  feeble  whims  to  an  abnormal  degree,  thus  prolonging 
brother  Possum's  peeved  disposition  into  a  state  of  sull,  giving  to  us  the  old 
proverbial  "playing  possum." 

The  world  war  gave  us  a  new  version  of  playing  possum  and  called  it 
"camouflage."  We  have  always  had  "moral  camouflage"  and  "religious 
camouflage."  The  Pharisees  gave  us  a  demonstration  of  the  latter  and  called 
it  "piety."  Everybody  knows  however  that  their  "pretended  piety"  was 
double  barrel  hypocrisy. 

Now  comes  along  a  modern  pharisaical  bugler  playing  a  syncopated, 
hypnotizing,  mesmerzing,  minor  wail  rag-time  which  we  will  call  "Odam's 
Pious  Goosestep."  This  reminds  me  of  Pat  and  Mike.  Pat  knew  Mike  was  a 
"great  good  MON"  because  he  admitted  it  so  freely.  Christian  Scientists  as 
a  rule  must  be  "very  pious"  since  Odom  himself  is  shouting  it  from  the  house- 
top thru  the  press. 

Talk  about  "playing  to  the  galleries"  if  this  isn't  "gallery  stuff"  with 
exclusive  rights  I  have  missed  my  guess. 

Mr.  Odom  squirms  over  the  fact  of  my  failure  to  take  Christian  Science 
and  its  founder  seriously.  To  be  consistent  as  a  minister  I  must  necessarily 
take  the  whole  thing  as  a  joke  since  none  of  them  are  consistent  only  in  in- 
consistency. To  practice  and  teach  Mrs.  Eddy's  writings  one  would  neces- 
sarily be  compelled  to  do  "cork  screw"  reasoning.  However  I  do  not  blame 
her  devotees  since  everything  to  them  is  "all  mind"  and  no  matter.  It  is 
perfectly  safe  to  wager  on  this  fact  namely — that  Christian  Scientists  do  not 
have  a  corner  on  the  "mind  market"  Ma  Eddy  not  excepted,  even  tho  she 
and  her  followers  do  claim  "divine  intelligence,"  "supreme  piety,"  "extreme 
happiness,"  "patent  revelation"  and  other  wares. 

By  the  way  I  notice  on  page  8  of  The  Dallas'  Morning  News,  Nov.  30, 
that  Christian  Science  leaders  are  still  waging  an  old  warfare  among  them- 
selves over  so-called  international  control  of  Church.  If  my  memory  serves 
me  correctly  this  "pious  row"  all  started  over  a  little  old  "matter"  known  to 
the  uninitiated  as  plain  dollars  and  cents. 

In  other  words  this  lawsuit  which  is  now  raging  in  Boston  seems  to  date 
back  over  a  number  of  years  and  is  all  over  Mrs.  Eddy's  vast  estate  which  she 
garnered  together  in  her  life  time  from  the  gullible  that  paid  her  so  dearly 
for  little  bits  of  kindness,  healing  advice,  etc.  Said  healing  and  advicei  o'f 
course  emanating  from  Mrs.  Eddy's  pious  heart  solely  as  a  result  of  her  mag- 
nanimous spirit.  Evidently  this  big  law  suit  will  cause  a  slump  in  the  C  S 
'•piety"  market. 

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Doc  Odom  reminds  me  that  "piety  implies  the  absence  of  cheap  wit, 
vitrolic  abuse,  slang  phrases  and  ridicule."  May  I  also  remind  him  that 
"piety"  is  at  least  a  positive  virtue  and  certainly  implies  the  truth  and  in- 
telligent consistency  to  say  nothing  of  devout  reverence  for  God.  We  will 
turn  on  the  light  and  see  whether  Christian  Science  is  pious,  truthful,  con- 
sistent, or  even  kind  and  benevolent. 

Now  don't  back  up  on  your  leader,  friend  Odom.  You  quoted  Mrs.  Eddy 
as  saying  "do  good  unto  your  enemies  when  opportunity  occurs."  Did  she 
do  it?  Let's  see  what  a  charming  angel  Ma  Eddy  was  in  "doing  good"  unto 
her  enemies  and  other  lovey  dovey  stunts  attributed  to  her  by  the  Dallas 
Practitioner  in  his  attempt  to  divert  the  truth  from  the  public  eye.  Everyone 
that  ever  incurred  Mrs.  Eddy's  displeasure  became  a  marked  victim  of  her 
evil  machinations.  Her  entire  history  shows  her  up  as  a  tyrant  when  her 
will  was  conflicted  by  another.  Some  moral  leader  she  was.  She  was  incor- 
rigble  as  a  girl  both  in  her  home  and  in  the  public  school  which  she-  never 
finished. 

To  give  proof  as  I  go,  your  attention  is  hereby  called  to  Mrs.  Eddy's 
"mental  assassination"  theory.  She  says  "One  of  the  greatest  crimes  prac- 
ticed in,  or  known  to  the  ages  is  mental  assassination  and  declares  that  any 
person  who  practices  it  should  be  hung  or  electrocuted.  After  calling  this 
one  of  the  greatest  crimes  of  the  ages  Mrs.  Eddy  brings  just  damnation  upon 
herself  by  stooping  to  practice  this  very  thing — See  Christian  Science  Journal, 
Feb.,  1889,  in  which  she  says,  "The  time  has  come  for  instructing  human 
justice  so  that  these  secret  criminals  shall  tremble  before  the  omnipotent 
finger  that  points  them  out  to  the  human  executioner." 

This  is  a  sample  of  Eddy  "piety,"  Eddy  "kindness"  and  Eddy  "consis- 
tency." This  is  great  moral  stuff  for  sensible  people  to  tolerate.  A  person 
would  have  to  wear  moral  shock  absorbers  to  accept  such  a  lovely  doctrine  as 
"assassination"  in  any  form,  to  say  nothing  of  both  accepting  and  defending 
the  originator  of  the  so-called  mental  assassination  theory.  Anyway  where  is 
the  Christian  spirit  in  such  belief?  Did  Mrs.  Eddy  learn  murder  from 
Christ?  It  appears  to  me  that  she  got  a  dose  of  Satan  instead  of  a  bless- 
ing from  Christ.  Christian  Scientists  seem  to  know  so  little  about  the  doc- 
trine which  they  preach  and  pretend  to  practice,  to  say  nothing  of  their  abso- 
lute ignorance  of  the  Bible,  I  feel  it  my  duty  to  be  perfectly  frank  with  them 
r.rid  the  public  and  raise  the  lid  a  little  higher  on  this  much  vaunted  system  of 
pretended  religious  healing. 

Listen — Mrs.  Eddy  says.  "It  was  years  after  we  were  personally  attacl:- 
cd  before  w^e  taught  our  students  self-defense."  This  so-called  "self 'd?fense" 
consists  in  hurling  back  upon  the  enemy  whatever  he  is  attempting  by  mental 
power  to  inflict  upon  his  victim,  whether  it  be  cancer,  consumption  or  any 
other  foul  disease,  This  doctrine  has  only  one  sequel  in  history.  I  refer  you 
to  the  German  atrocities  in  the  late  war.  The  Bible  says,  "return  p-ood  for 
evil."  Did  Eddy  do  it?  Where  did  she  get  this*  doctrine ?  Evidently  from 
Satan  whom  she  denies. 

The  worst  is  yet  to  come.  Mrs.  Eddy  gathered  her  students  about  her  in 
the  parlor  after  meals  and  mentally  took  up  the  enemy  treatin*/  them  so  as 
to  cause  their  "old  beliefs"  (former  diseases)  to  return  and  prostrate  them. 
For  example  she  would  say.  "Treat  Kennedy"  (one  of  her  former  friends 
and  practicing  partners).  "Say  to  him  your 'sins  have  found  you  out.  You 
are  affected  as  you  wish  to  affect  me.  Your  evil  thourrhts  react  upon  vou. 
You  are  bilious,  you  are  consumptive,  you  have  "liver  trouble.  You  have  b'^en 
poisoned  by  arsenic." 

Just  to  show  you  further  into  the  heart  of  this  dear  idol  of  the  Eddyit^^ 
m  order  that  you  may  see  her  pretended  "piety"  tho  professed  by  her  and 
advertised  for  her  as  real  by  all  of  her  admirers,  I  call  vour  attention  to  the 
followmg  facts.  Mrs.  Eddy  had  a  row  with  D.  TI.  Spofford  which  resulted 
in  a  law  suit  over  some  tuition,  she  claimed  he  was  due  her  for  teaching  him 
(domg  good   to   him?).     She   also  brought   suit  against   Mr.    Spofford"  as   a 

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practitioner  of  "Malicious  Animal  Man-netism"  but  the  jud<;-e  threw  out  the 
Ci'se.  Failing-  in  this  she  fired  "mental  bullets"  at  Spofford.  These  "mental 
bullets''  failing-  to  hurl  disease  into  the  invulnerable  Spofford  she  it  seems  at 
least  attempted  to  murder  him  outright.  Whether  Mrs.  Eddy  was  implicated 
or  not  I  cannot  say.  Her  husband,  Asa  G.  Eddy,  was  indicted  for  conspiracy 
to  murder  the  said  D.  H.  Spofford.  Any  one  can  procure  a  copy  of  this  in- 
dictment from  the  court  records,  reading-  that  with  E.  J.  Ahrens,  he  "hired 
one,  James  L.  Sar^:ent,  for  a  certain  sum  to-v/it:  five  hundred  dollars"  to  kill 
and  murder  the  said  D.  H.  Spofford.  Some  "piety"  this  is.  A  great  family 
record  also  for  such  celebrities. 

Odom  plays  martyr  role  for  Mrs.  Eddy  and  compares  her  with  Stephen 
by  quoting  her  as  saying  when  persecuted,  "Lord  lay  not  this  sin  to  tjheir 
charge."  What  nonsense  and  absurdity.  Note  the  inconsistency  of  her 
saying,  "lay  not  this  sin  to  their  charge"  in  one  place  and  then  hear  her  openly 
deny  the  existence  of  sin  in  another  place.  She  says,  "Man  is  incapable  of 
sin."  See  Science  and  Health,  page  475,  Ed.  1904.  Mrs.  "Piety"  at  least 
ought  to  value  "truth"  enough  as  to  not  contradict  herself  on  almost  every 
page  of  her  divine  book  which  Odom  says  was  "gradually"  revealed  to  her 
and  then  revised  it  as  the  author  saw  fit.  "This  is  Revelation  a  La  Carte 
Eddy." 

The  fact  is,  Mr.  Odom,  your  book  "Science  and  Health"  must  have  been 
in  an  av/ful  mess  when  first  dished  out  to  Ma  Eddy.  If  she  revised  it  all 
these  years  as  you  say  and  then  it  is  still  full  of  absurdities  as  I  am  showing 
in  all  my  articles  then  there  is  only  one  conclusion,  Mrs.  Eddy  got  her  book 
from  the  Devil  instead  of  by  "gradual  revelation"  from  God".  And  even  if 
she  got  her  stuff  from  the  Devil  he  certainly  must  have  been  on  a  drunk  and 
not  up  to  his  usual  standard  for  even  Christ  credits  Satan  with  being  a  "consis- 
tent liar."  See  John  8:44.  La  la,  Mrs.  Eddy  and  friend  Odom,  you  will  never 
make  me  believe  such  bunco  as  contained  in  Science  and  Health.  If  you  would 
teach  reverence  for  God  and  bless  the  world  in  a  permanent  way  first  remem- 
ber this  one  thing,  TRUTH  never  has  to  apologize  for  inconsistency,  REVEL- 
ATION needs  no  revision. 

Odom  claims  Christian  Scientists  never  attack  from  their  pulpits  or 
thru  the  press  the  religious  teachings  of  their  neighbors  in  their  theories 
about  God.  Well  you  knov/  the  Kaiser  played  that  kind  of  a  role.  He 
v.hispered  "brother,"  "peace,"  "disarmament,  etc.,"  twelve  years  before  1914. 
Let's  see  whether  or  not  Christian  Scientists  are  calm  and  peaceful  wnth  their 
neighbors  and  never  attack  their  views  of  God.  First  of  all  Odom  says 
Science  and  Health  lias  the  widest  circulation  in  the  world  outside  the  Bible. 
Will  you  please  note  what  this^  wonderful  book  of  theirs  says  about  Godi 
'God  IS  not  a  person.  Principle  and  idea  are  one  and  this  one  is  God.  God 
IS  an  impersonal  being.  God  is  divine  principle."  This  out  Herods  Herod. 
It  is  a  direct  attack  upon  the  Christian's  God.  11}  is  an  absolute  insult  to 
Christianity  for  an  ignoramus  woman  of  Ma  Eddy's  caliber  to  make  such 
blasphemous  statements  denying  the  personailtv  of  God.  And  worse  still, 
for  her  followers  to  come  along  and  pretend  thev  never  attack  others  from' 
their  pulpita  or  thru  their  press,  when  everybody  knows  that  Christian 
Scientists  are  working  night  and  day  to  propagate  just  such  rottenness  as  I 
have  mentioned— namely— attempting  to  make  God  a  sort  of  a  "blessed 
nobody."  Friend,  if  this  is  the  best  argument  you  have  you  had  better  re- 
cuperate your  stock  or  blow  off  the  hounds. 

For  Mr.  Odom's  enlightenment,  I  will  tell  him  a  few  ways  resorted  to  bv 
Christian  Scientists  in  attacking  Christianity.  First  of  all  they  beo-in  by 
finding  fault  with  the  Church,  the  ministers,  the  doctors  and  humanity  in 
general.  As  most  of  them  are  ex-church  members  they  first  be^-in  to  earn 
their  "ex"  by  ceasing  to  attend  the  regular  church  services  and  of  course 
the  mid-week  meeting  was  "ex-ed"  long  since.  As  soon  as  they  get  a  mental 
ballast  of  C.  S.  then  they  begin  to  work  on  the  members  of  their  families- 
neighbors  preferred— and  church  member  neighbors  especially.     Say,  Odom, 

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come  clean  now  and  shell  out  the  corn,  is  it  not  a  fact  that  you  used  to  belong 
to  an  evang-elical  denomination  as  a  church   member? 

I  have  had  several  Christian  Scientists  to  attempt  to  intimidate  me  from 
lecturing  on  Eddyism  by  threatening-  severe  measures.  One  200  pounder  once 
threatened  to  mop  up  the  dust  if  I  made  certain  statements  about  C.  S. 
Well  the  statements  were  made  and  rubbed  in  and  I  never  lost  any  dust 
outside  the  bath  tub.  The  Lord  called  me  to  preach  the  gospel,  fight  sin, 
(not  sinners)  and  expose  false  religions.  I  have  no  personal  grudge  against 
any  Christian  Scientist  in  the  world;  I  love  their  souls.  I  do  however  abomi- 
nate the  system  of  Eddyism  which  is  blinding  people  to  Jesus  Christ  as  an 
atoning  savior  by  blood  for  their  sin  sick  souls.  I  was  lecturing  in  a  little 
town  once  on  Eddyism  and  an  Eddyite  was  present  and  she  created  such  a 
disturbance  that  her  own  husband  threatened  to  take  her  out  of  the  house.  In 
the  presence  of  some  of  my  audience  she  said,  "It's  a  lie,  it's  a  lie,  it's  a  lie," 
about  everything  that  was  being  said,  but  her  "mental  bullets"  failed  to 
penetrate,  as  the  Lord  gave  the  speaker  unusual  liberty  that  day. 

Christian  Science  is  absolutely  unfair  as  a  system  of  healing.  I  with 
many  others  know  of  case  after  emse  where  G.  S.  devotees  meddled  with 
Doctors'  patients  by  telling  the  patients  not  to  take  medicine.  One  of  the 
saddest  men  I  almost  ever  met  was  recently  in  an  oil  city.  IThis  gentleman 
had  lost  his  wife  and  he  told  me  that  nothing  in  the  world  cause  it  but  a  lot 
of  C.  S.  fanatics  in  Kansas  City  where  his  wife  was  supposed  to  be  in  the 
hospital.  These  C.  S.  folk  talked  her  out  of  taking  the  medicine  and  auto- 
intoxication set  up  which  caused  her  death.  The  hospital  was  not  responsible 
because  the  C.  S.  coaxed  her  away.  And  they  were  getting  all  the  money 
they  could  for  their  services.  My  attention  was  also  called  once  to  a  lady 
of  my  audience  whose  sister  was  in  one  of  the  large  insane  asylums  of  New 
\  ork'  state  as  a  direct  result  of  going  "nutty"  over  Christian  Science.  Mrs. 
Eddy  claimed  to  have  made  cures  of  cancer,  tuberculosis  and  other  incurable 
maladies  but  she  never  did  prove  one  case.  Neither  can  Odom  or  any  other 
Scientists  show  a  case  of  any  consequence  where  C.  S.  healed  them.  Any 
nut  can  see  why  Christian  Scientists  boost  their  healing  wares  so  much — there 
is  money  in  it  for  the  healers.     (Practitioners  so-called). 

As  a  religion  Christian  Science  denies  every  fundamental  doctrine  of 
Christianity.  For  instance  Eddy  says  the  Trinity  "suggests  heathen  Gods," 
S.  H.  page  256,  Ed.  1902.  She  denies  the  Holy  Spirit  "The  comforter 
I  understand  to  be  Divine  Science"  S.  H.  p.  55,  Ed.  1902.  She  denies  sin,  "Soul 
cannot  sin."  S.  H.  p.  468.  She  denies  the  forgiveness  of  sin.  "Sin  is  not  forgiv- 
en; we  cannot  escape  its  penalty,"  S.  H.  p.  311,  75th  Ed.  revised.  This  brilliant 
roasoner  turns  right  around  then  and  says  "No  final  judgment  awaits  mortals," 
S.  H.  p.  291,  Ed.  1902.  She  denies  Christ's  resurrection,  "Jesus'  students  not 
sufficiently  advanced  to  understand  their  Master's  Triumph  did  not  perform 
any  wonderful  works  until  they  saw  Him  after  His  crucifixion  and  learned 
that  He  had  not  died."  S.  H.  p.  45.  Eddy  says,  "A  lie  is  all  the  Satan  there- 
is."  S.  H.  p.  84,  85,  Ed.  1902.  She  says,  "God  never  created  matter."  S. 
H.  p.  335,  Ed.  1902.  She  denies  man's  creation.  "Man  co-exists  with  God."  S. 
H.  p.  266,  Ed.  1902.  She  denies  the  second  coming  of  Christ.  "The  second 
coming  of  Christ  is  unquestionably  the  spiritual  advent  of  the  advancing' 
idea  of  God  in  Christian  Science." — Autobiography,  p.  76.  The  Bible  says, 
"This  same  Jesus  shall  so  come  again  in  like  manner  as  ye  have  seen  him  go." 
Acts  1:11.  Christ's  second  coming  does  not  mean  Christian  Science  nor  the 
Holy  Spirit  because  Paul  and  John  both  tell  us  that  He  is  coming — and  this 
a  long  time  after  the  event  of  Pentecost.  See  2  Tim.  4:1;  Pleb.  9:28;  1  John 
2:28;  3:2,  3;  Rev.  1:7;  Rev.  22:12,  20. 

Christian  Science  absolutely  denies  the  "deity  of  Christ"  because  they 
cater  to  orthodox  Jews  and  everybody  knows  that  Jews  are  Christ  rejectors 
as  well  as  many  Gentiles.  Nobody  has  to  accept  Jesus  as  supreme  Lord  to 
join  the  C.  S.  church  hence  you  see  their  sham  in  pretending  to  believe  iii 
Jesus  and  the  Bible  that  condemns  their  hollow  system. 

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Christianity  is  the  only  true  reli^-ion  because  it  is  the  only  relioion  that 
bases  its  claim  of  acceptance  on  the  resurrection  of  Christ.  Christ's  resur- 
rection is  the  climax  proof  of  His  deity,  hence  no  man  can  be  a  true  Christian 
iicceptable  to  God,  unless  he  has  accepted  Christ,  as  his  risen  Lord.  How  can 
A  Christian  Scientist  accept  Christ  and  the  Bible  and  hold  to  Science  and 
Health  at  the  same  time  when  that  book  flatly  denies  Christ's  resurrection? 
See  page  45.  It  also  denies  Christ's  atonement,  see  page  23.  Christ's  atone- 
ment and  resurrection  are  inseparable.  The  Bible  everywhere  teaches  Christ's 
death  for  sin.  His  resurrection  for  power  in  life  and  service.  See  Rom  4:25: 
5:10,  11.    2  Cor.  5:21. 

In  the  light  of  these  facts  Odom  is  either  wholly  ignorant  of  the  Bible 
and  Science  and  Health  or  else  he  is  guilty  of  hypocrisy  even  beyond  the  ex- 
pression of  Shakespeare.  I  take  the  more  charitable  view  and  refer  you  to 
his  last  article  as  proof  of  his  ignorance  of  God's  word.  Any  system  of 
religion  that  leaves  out  Christ's  atonement  (all  do  but  Christianity)  is  un- 
v/orthy  of  the  Christian  because  it  seeks  to  undermine  Christianity.  No  sys- 
tem IS  more  guilty  of  this  than  Eddyism,  hence  my  deliberate  exposure  of  it. 

All  the  statements  I  have  given  from  Science  and  Health  are  only  ai 
few  links  in  the  long  chain  of  contradictions.  Not  only  does  Eddy  contra- 
dict the  Bible,  philosophy,  true  science  and  reason,  but  she  contradicts  her- 
self over  and  over.  The  only  conclusioi^  is  she  was  an  incurably  insane 
v/oman  or  else  she  was  the  greatest  deceiver  that  has  marked  the  world's 
history.     Facts  show  the  latter  view. 

Odom  seeks  to  explain  these  absurd  contradictions  by  saying  that  God 
revealed  "gradually"  His  will  to  Mrs.  Eddy,  hence  her  revisions.  May  I 
ask  why  all  these  contradictions  I  have  mentioned  are  in  her  revised  volume 
also  ?  The  fact  is,  I  have  quoted  almost  all  of  her  statements  from  her  latest 
revision,  I  see  no  difference  in  any  of  her  rubbish.  When  any  person  attempts 
to  defend  such  trash,  the  result  is  inevitable.  They  can  only  make  them- 
selves ridiculous  to  right  thinking  people.  Yes  friend,  Mrs.  Eddy's  revelation 
did  come  so  "very  gradual"  that  it  seems  to  have  slipped  thru  her  mind  like 
sand  m  the  sun  dial.  "Gradually"  slipped  away  entirely.  Yes  dear,  it  seems 
very  "gentle  and  gradual"  like  teacher  like  pupils  (practitioners). 

Yes  Mrs.  Eddy  is  heralded  as  an  angel  of  mercy  bv  all  of  her  dupes.  She 
seemed  so  anxious  to  help  (?)  a  "sin  sick  world."  I  am"  wondering  why  she  charg- 
ed the  "sin  sick"  world  at  the  rate  of  $300.00  for  12  lessons.  Later  cutting 
the  lessons  down  to  7  but  didn't  cut  the  price  a  penny.  She  says  "God  im- 
pelled me  to  set  a  price  on  Christian  Science.  I  was  led  to  name  $300  00'  as 
the  price  for  each  pupil.  I  shrunk  from  asking  it  but  was  finally  led  by  a 
sirange  Providence  to  accept  this  fee."  Just  imagine  this  bird  shrinking 
from  asking  this  price.  Imagine  again  if  you  can,  what  an  awful  time  God 
had  in  coaxing  this  fake  reformer  to  accept  the  price.  He  fixed  $42  per 
lesson.  Who  led  her  to  name  the  first  price?  If  God  did,  why  did  He 
twice  change  His  mind  to  the  value  of  the  information.  Blasuhemy!  Rank 
deception! 

M:rs.  Eddy  claimed  to  have  taught  4,000  pupils  in  7  years.  Well  at 
$300  per  pupil  she  realized  the  handsome  sum  of  $1,200,000.  No  won- 
der she  stuck  on  the  job.  This  reminds  me  of  Charles  Ponzi's  "get  rich' 
ouick"  scheme  in  Boston.  Ponzi  got  5  years  over  the  road.  Mrs.  Eddy 
raved  on.  The  world  has  always  been  more  lenient  with  women  grafters 
than  with  men.  Practically  all  of  the  leading  cults  of  today  were  found- 
ed by  women.  They  appeal  especially  to  women  and  many  "petty  coat" 
men.  Some  good  people  have  been  entangled  in  Christian  Science.  I  prav 
the  Lord  for  their  deliverance. 

Mr.  Odom  you  say  that  Mrs.  Eddy  like  Jesus  blessed  a  "sin  sick"  world. 
May  I  ask  you  a  direct  question.  Did  Jesus  ever*  make  a  charge  for  heal- 
ing a  single  soul?  If  not  then  why  did  Ma  Eddy  stick  on  such  exorbitant 
fees?  In  what  way  did  Mrs.  Eddy  exemplify  the  Master''  Name  one 
please.     As  a  holy  practitioner  of  a  Divine   (?)    Science  why  do   you  stick 

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the  price  on  your  visits  so  much  per  blessing?  You  say  Mrs.  Eddy  exemp- 
lified salvation  by  grace,  then  why  do  you  and  all  of  her  followers  exemp- 
lify salvation  (healing)  by  cash?  How  long  would  you  continue  to  per- 
form your  so-called  wonderful  healing  and  blessing  if  it  did  not  pay  .big 
dividends?  Suppose  I  was  stranded  in  Dallas,  dead  broke  with  a  pain  in 
my  "saw  dust"  and  should  send  for  you  with  this  explanation — would  you 
come?  Oh  boy!  I  would  prefer  a  gasfitter  outright.  Any  way  how  can  you 
claim  to  be  like  Jesus  ini  your  little  so-called  healings  and  charge  a  fee 
if  Jesus  did  not?  Why  do  Christian  Scientists  knock  on  Medical  Doctors 
and  then  send  for  these  doctors  in  cases  of  childbirth,  pneumonia,  influ- 
e/iza,  typhoid,  contagion,  broken  limbs  and  other  ailments  that  require 
'real  science"  instead  of  "fake  science"  practitioners  for  instance?  If  you 
are  at  all  sincere  Mr.  Odom  in  what  you  believe  you  will  answer 
these   questions   in   detail.    The   public   would    like    to   know    these   things. 

When  Mrs.  Eddy  first  started  out  she  advertised  on  a  "no  cure  no  pay'* 
basis.  Of  course  this  plan  was  not  profitable.  She  switched  to  a  "pay 
in  advance"  basis.  Since  then  all  of  her  following  little  "toy  practitioners" 
seem  to  have  caught  those  little  old  "silver  dust  germs."  As  your  last 
article  says  "By  their  fruits  ye  shall  know  them."  It  seems  that  there  are 
very  few  C.  S.  foot  prints  under  a  poor  fruit  tree  (poor  folk).  Oh  consis- 
tency thou  are  a  jewel  most  precious.  Christian  Scientists  do  not  cater  to 
the  poor.  Christ  did.  See  Luke  4:18. 

If  Christian  Scientists  are  so  Christ-like,  good,  merciful,  benevolent 
and  kind  may  I  ask  you  some  questions  that  the  public  would  like  to 
know?  Where  are  your  orphan's  homes,  insane  asylums,  homes  for  aged, 
schools  for  poor,  schools  for  blind,  hospifajs,  charity  boards,  or  any 
other  kind  of  benevolent  institution?  Name  one  please.  If  you  are  not  a 
"four  flusher"  you  will  be  glad  to  answer  these  questions  in  detail. 

Your  Gamaliel  logic  is  moth  eaten.  Gamaliel  was  a  Pharisee.  They 
were  in  the  majority;  were  they  right?  Mohammed  has  more  followers  than 
Christ,  who  is  right?  Your  argument  that  Science  and  Health  has  the 
widest  circulation  no  more  proves  C,  S.  is  right  than  the  Kaiser's  larger 
a^-my  proved  that  "might  was  right."  Besides  all  this  Jesus  Christ  will 
judge  every  living  human  that  has  not  accepted  Him  as  the  risen  Lord 
at  His  second  coming.  See  Mt.  25:31;  2  Thes.  1:7-10.  If  you  would  study 
your  Bible  more  your  articles  would  not  sound  so  much  like  the  philosophy 
of  Prof.  P.  Nut  Hazed,  Pres.  Pecan  University. 

From  Genesis  to  Revelation  God  exhorts  people  to  read  the  Bible. 
Not  once  is  there  mentioned  a  "KEY  to  the  Scriptures."  Neither  does  the 
Bible  ever  hint  that  a  grammar  school  woman  philosopher  would  be 
raised  up  in  the  last  days  to  enlighten  poor  erring  mortals  like  myself 
and  other  ignorant  preachers  and  their  hallucinated  sessions,  boards  and 
kymen.  The  Bible  does  mention  the  fact  that  a  false  religion  would  appear 
in  the  last  davs  and  pretend  to  be  a  "Religious  Science."  Read  1  Tim. 
G:20,  21;  with  2  Tim.  3:1-5;  2  Tim.  4:1-3.  Since  JesiSB  is  tli{e  "only  way"  of  "Sal- 
vation" and  not  the  "way  shower"  as  you  say.  I  suggest  you  read  John 
14:6.  "I  am  THE  WAY,  THE  TRUTH,  THE  LIFE.  No  man  can  come 
to  the  Father,  but  by  me"  (Christian  Scientists  and  practitioners  not  ex- 
cepted). Since  the  Bible  is  God's  "only  book,"  I  suggest  that  you  "read 
it."   It  is  a  sure  cure  for  ignorance. 

The  most  "extravagant"  statement  I  ever  heard  from  a  C.  S.  practitioner. 
Pie  says  "Christian  Scientists  do  not  proselyte."  Why  is  it  then  that  nearly 
i:\\  of  them  are  ex-church  members?  I  have  never  met  a  C.  S.  worker  that 
I  thought  wouldn't  proselyte.  That  is  your  means  of  growth.  You  achnitted 
this  fact  in  your  last  article.  You  could  have  mentioned  this  truth  if  you 
would  also,  that  you  take  advantage  of  people  in  sorrow  and  affliction  by 
sending  them  a  lot  of  your  rubbish  when  they  are  in  such  a  state  of  weak 
raind.  I  have  had  them  write  me.  Oh  boy!  one  time  satisfied  them.  It's  a 
poor  hawk  that  can't  tell  when  to  quit.  You  make  the  church  members  your 
dumping  ground.     I  have  had  them  proselyte  my  members.     In  fact  I  have 

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caught  them  in  the  very  act.    All  ministers  know  these  statements  are  typical 
of  your  stock  in  trade. 

You  refer  me  to  Eddy's  book  on  "Retrospection  and  Introspection"  as 
the  last  word  of  authority  on  Dear  Mary's  life  and  work.  This  time  I  will 
t>!ve  the  public  one  sample  of  this  "bull."  On  page  38  she  says  that  she 
discovered  Christian  Science  in  1866.  In  Science  and  Health  Ed.  1875  she 
says  she  discovered  C.  S.  in  1864.  In  Christian  Science  Journal  June,  1887, 
Eddy  says  she  discovered  C.  S.  in  1862.  In  Boston  Post  March  7,  1883,  Eddy 
says  she  discovered  C.  S.  in  1853.  Here  are  four  separate  and  distinct  dates 
given,  1853,  1862,  1864,  1866.  Only  one  of  these  dates  can  be  correct  even 
if  Mrs.  Eddy  was  the  discoverer  of  Christian  Science.  Three  dates  or  75  per 
cent  of  her  own  statement  is  necessarily  a  lie.  The  court  records  show  that 
she  was  not  the  discoverer  of  Christian  Science  at  all,  hence  this  makes  her 
claim  100  per  cent  a  lie.  Now  this  is  a  sample  of  her  book  on  which  Odom 
pinned  high  hopes  or  he  would  never  have  referred  me  to  "Retrospection  and 
Introspection."  This  reminds  me  of  the  utter  break  down  in  German  diplo- 
macy. Christian  Science  reasoning  compared  with  plain  facts,  is  like  a  run 
down  "tin  lizzy"  compared  with  a  12  cylinder  Locomobile,  with  apology  to 
the  "tin  lizzie." 

Laying  all  jokes  aside  Mr,  Odom,  I  believe  you  have  swallowed  a  lot  of 
C.  S.  dope  without  investigation.  If  you  are  a  philosopher,  practioner  and 
teacher  of  Christian  Science,  then  "heaven  help"  the  rank  and  file  of  Eddy- 
ites.  You  know  the  old  darkey  that  read  the  prescription  "take  the  whole 
box,"  well  he  did.  But  he  had  to  wait  until  the  lid  came  off  of  those  pills  before 
he  got  his  money's  worth.  Personally  I  believe  you  are  a  right  nice  fellow, 
but  in  the  wrong  boat  as  a  newspaper  writer.  Your  article  impresses  me 
that  several  "divine  minds"  are  working  together  on  them.  If  so  I  recom- 
mend to  all  of  you  a  "Hoover  Vacuum  Cleaner."  Brain  dust  is  a  great  hind- 
rance to  facts,  reason,  truth,  logic  and  light.     See  Col.  2-8. 

A.  REILLY  COPELAND, 

Denton,  Texas. 


CHAPTER  VIL 

Reply  to  Rev.  Copeland's  Criticism  on  Christian  Science 

Tlie  Denton  Record-Chronicle. 

Dallas,  December  15,  1920. 

The  Denton  preacher  in  his  last  attack  on  Christian  Science  expresses 
surprise  that  any  one  should  take  Christian  Science  seriously.  It  seems  to 
liave  been  a  serious  issue  to  him  to  call  forth  such  persistent  endeavor  tf) 
submerge  the  true  sense  of  it  in  a  flood  of  ridicule.  Christian  Science  has 
flourished  for  half  a  century  under  the  lash  of  intolerance,  prejudice  and 
bigotry  and  will  survive  all  such  future  attacks  because  it  possesses  the  in- 
herent vitality  of  demonstrable  spiritual  truth.  If  it  were  what  the  preacher 
would  mislead  the  public  to  believe  it  would  have  lapsed  into  oblivion  before 
the  close  of  the  first  decade  of  its  history.  But  it  is  still  here,  and  here  to 
sray.  No  modern  historian  of  repute  fails  to  accord  it  its  rightful  place  as 
a  potent  factor  in  the  religious  life  of  today. 

A  rector  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  writes  in  the  North  Ameri- 
can Review  for  December.  1913,  as  follows:  "The  denunciation  by  many 
ministers  reveal  a  lack  of  thought  and  kindness,  which  raises  a  suspicion  that 
fear  of  losing  members,  rather  than  the  love  of  truth  may  account  for  their 
hostility. 

Through  the  New  York  American  of  January,  1908,  two  years  prior  tr. 
Mrs.  Eddy's  passing,  Clara  Barton  states:  "I  can  say  that  I  look  upon 
Christian  Science,  as  I  understand  it,  as  the  most  ideally  beautiful,  yet  the 
most  practical  and  comforting  of  beliefs,  Mrs.  Eddy,  should  have  the  respect, 
admiration  and  love  of  the  whole  nation,  for  she  is  its  greatest  woman  ='=  *  *" 

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"Love,"  she  said,  "permeates  all  the  teachmgs  of  this  great  woman — so  great, 
I  believe,  that  at  this  perspective  we  can  scarcely  realize  how  great,  and 
locking  into  her  life  history  we  see  nothing  but  self-sacrifice  and  selfless- 

ness." 

What  a   contrast   between  these   broad,   fair-minded   estimates    and   the 
matter  which  has  recently  appeared  in  the  Record-Chronicle. 

Mrs.  Eddy  was  not  the  originator  of  the  theory  of  mental  assassination, 
nor  did  she  practice  it.  The  theory  is  as  old  as  time  itself,  being  illustrated 
in  the  necromancy  and  witch-craft  recorded  in  the  Bible,  the  Black  Art  ( 
tlie  Middle  Ages,  on  down  through  the  centuries  to  the  mesmerism,  hypno- 
tism and  occultism  of  today.  Mrs.  Eddy  discovered  that  this  mental  method 
was  being  practised  upon  her  by  malicious  students,  and  used  no  other 
weapon  than  divine  love  for  self-protection  from  it.  Mrs.  Eddy  has  taught  her 
students  no  other  method  of  self-defense  from  directed  malice  than  the  armor 
of  good.  In  her  1901  message  she  writes:  "Christian  Science  gives  neither 
moral  right  nor  might  to  harm  either  man  or  beast." 

Instead  of  the  "hurling  back"  method,  illustrated  by  the  minister  in  his 
last  by  quoting  from  McClure  Magazine  history,  Mrs.  Eddy  has  recommend- 
ed to  her  followers  as  a  means  of  protection  against  malicious  mental  at- 
tack, "never  to  return  evil  for  evil,  but  to  know  the  truth."  (Manual,  page  42). 
The  charge  of  conspiracy  to  murder  D.  H.  Spofford,  against  Asa  G.  Eddy 
and  E.  J.  Arens,  while  a  matter  of  court  record,  proved  to  be  no  case  at  all, 
for  it  was  summarily  dismissed  by  the  judge.  The  case  was  built  upon  per- 
juries, and  collapsed" without  a  hearing.  It  was  worked  up  through  malicious 
i>itent  to  injure  the  standing  of  the  Eddys,  the  prime  instigator  of  the  plot 
being  an  ex-convict  and  saloon  keeper.  As  witnesses  there  appeared  this 
man's  sister,  who  kept  a  house  of  ill-fame  and  several  inmates  of  this  house. 
Ihese  people,  with  two  detectives,  were  the  type  of  individuals  to  appear 
sgainst  Mr.  Eddy  and  Mr.  Arens  in  the  case.  After  its  dismissal  one  of  the 
accomplices  in  the  plot  to  injure  these  men  made  affidavit  to  the  fact  that 
lie  had  been  drilled  to  swear  lies  at  the  approaching  trial  by  the-  man  who 
had  concocted  the  diabolical  scheme.  Also  by  affidavits  of  certain  other 
persons,  it  was  established  that  both  men  were  absent  from  the  spot  at  the 
time  when  the  conspiracy  was  falsely  testified  before  the  grand  jury  to  have 
been  formed. 

No  one  who  is  acquainted  with  the  facts  attaches  any  importance  to  such 
efforts  as  the  above  plot  to  blacken  the  character  of  the  husband  of  a  woman 
experimentally  justified  by  works  of  benevolence  and  charity.  Such  spurious 
history  as  the  foregoing  is  due  to  the  unscrupulous  misrepresentations  of 
McClure's  Magazine.  To  depend  upon  a  bitterly  antagonistic  SDurce  such  as 
tiiis  for  an  unbiased  estimate  of  Mi^.  Eddy  v;ould  be  like  applying  to  the 
]olitical  enemies  of  Woodrow  Wilson  for  a  just  resume  of  his  life  and  work. 
The  claim  of  the  minister  that  there  are  no  charitable  institutions  main- 
tained by  Christian  Scientists  is  fals?.  There  is  a  very  lar'?:e  benevolent 
institution  for  the  sick  in  Boston,  provided  through  the  voluntary'  contribu- 
tions of  Christian  Scientists  throughout  the  world.  There  are  also  smaller 
homes  for  the  sick  in  other  cities,  and  a  probability  of  such  institutions  be- 
coming numerous,  as  the  demand  for  them  increases.  The  church  services 
are  institutions  for  healing.  Many  are  liealed  through  attendance  upon  them 
as  well  as  from  the  study  o^'  Christian  Science  literature  in  reading  rooms. 
All  of  these  channels  are  open  to  rich  and  poor  alike. 

Christian  Scientists  give  freely  to  charitable  purposes  both  within  and 
without  their  church  activities  being  careful  always  to  "let  not  thy  left 
hand  know  what  thy  right  hand  doeth." 

Jesus  said,  in  sending  forth  his  disciples  to  heal  and  preach,  "The  laborer 
is  worthy  of  his  hire."  Does  the  minister  apply  this  truth  to  his  own  spirit- 
ual labors  and  deny  the  right  of  others  to  do  the  same,  even  though  their 
interpretation  of  the  Scriptural  teaching  differs  in  some  essential  points  from 
his  own? 

The  statement  that  Mrs.  Eddy  never  healed  a  malignant  form  of  disease 

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would  be  very  difficult  for  the  minister  to  establish.  It  would  necessitate  his 
having'  been  present  during  her  every  effort  in  this  direction  and  having  seen 
that  effort  fail.  This  is  a  specimen  of  the  recklessness  of  the  statements 
cntained  in  the  series  of  attacks  on  Christian  Science  appearing  in  the 
Fecord-Chronicle. 

I  number  among  my  friends  many  persons,  given  up  by  physicions  as 
hopeless,  who  have  been  healed  through  Christian  Science  study  and  treat- 
ment. I  also  know  many  other  persons  diagnosed  by  materia  medica  as  in- 
curable without  operations,  who  are  now  well  and  happy  as  a  result  of  turn- 
ing to  Christian  Science.  Those  who  are  really  informed  have  long  since 
ceased  to  deny  that  these  healing  works  are  of  common  occurrence. 

The  minister  claims  that  the  converts  of  Christian  Science  were  formerly 
members  of  orthodox  churches,  and  goes  on  to  say  that  these  proselytes  are 
made  by  sending  Science  and  Health  to  prisons,  etc.  The  prison  is  the  last 
place  on  earth  one  would  expect  to  find  church  members,  nevertheless,  par- 
don is  hereby  asked  for  these  encroachments. 

The  claim  is  also  made  in  the  article  in  point  that  Christian  Scientists 
interfere  with  the  practice  of  physicians.  Mrs.  Eddy  has  given  her  followers 
special  gidmonition  against  such  interference,  recognizing  it  as  unethical.  If 
iiistances  have  occurred  where  Christian  Scientists  have  been  guilty  of  such 
interference  it  is  because  they  have  been  unmindful  of  her  instructions. 

The  assumed  illiteracy  of  the  Leader  of  Christian  Science  seems  to 
be  giving  our  critic  unnecessary  concern.  Her  fitness  as  a  spiritual  leader  and 
organizer  is  already  well  established  by  her  accomplishment.  If  Jesus,  the 
Christ,  were  physically  on  earth  today  he  too  would  likely  be  discredited  by 
bigotry  and  ecclesiasticism  on  the  basis  of  his  "never  having  learned." 

The  litigation  in  Boston  is  not  primarily  an  issue  involving  mere  dollars 
and  cents,  as  is  alleged  by  the  preacher.  While  there  are  property  rights 
involved,  the  main  issue  is  one  of  Principle.  The  leading  matter  to  be  de- 
termined is  whether  or  not  the  Directors  of  the  Mother  Church  are  to  be  the 
supreme  authority  in  all  affairs  pertaining  to  church  government,  as  provided 
in  the  Church  Manual. 

The  writer  hereby  announces  that  no  further  reply  will  be  made  to 
criticisms  on  Christian  Science  that  may  he  made  by  the  Denton  critic  at  this 
tim.e.  We  feel  that  so  many  false  statements  have  already  been  refuted  that 
the  public  has  formed  a  iust  estimate  of  the  unfair  and  unauthoritative 
status  of  this  so-called  information  in  regard  to  Christian  Science  and  its 
founder.  Any  further  volleys,  therefore,  will  go  unchallenged  and  be  allowed 
to  fall  of  their  own  putrid  weight. 

BRIGMAN  C.  ODOM, 
606  American  Exchange  Building,  Dallas,  Texas. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

Christian   Science   vs.  The   Swan   Song 

To  the  Denton  Record-Chronicle: 

Denton,  Texas,  December,  22,  1920. 

From  the  goose  step  to  the  Swan  Song.  From  the  Swan  Song  to  the 
philosophical  graveyard  of  mental  oblivion.  Now,  a  brief  walk  through  the 
garden  of  "inherent  vitality  of  demonstrable  truth"  so  called  by  the  Dallas 
word  artist.  As  a  feeble  resort,  the  Dallas  critic's  final  article  brands  all 
my  former  statements  as  false  and  says  they  will  fall  of  their  own  putrid 
weight.  As  most  of  my  statements  were  quotations  from  Mrs.  Eddy's  writ- 
ings his  mental  olfactory  nerves  seem  highly  trained  in  detecting  putrid 
matter.  This  isn't  my  fault  if  I  offered  him  a  rose  and  he  preferred  putre- 
faction.   Like  the  old  lady  that  kissed  her  cow,  everybody  to  their  own  tastes. 

The  public  knows  that  the  Dallas  writer  originated  the  cause  of  these 
i  discussions  by  firing  a  volley  of  criticism  at  Dr.  Conant's  back  after  he  had 

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left  the  city  of  Denton,  denouncing  as  false  all  the  statements  of  his  sermon. 
I  merely  replied  through  fairness  to  Dr.  Conant.  Then  the  Dallas  critic 
came  back  like  a  thousand  brick  and  I  followed  his  tirade  of  raillery  wilh 
another  article.  This  made  us  equal  in  opportunity,  with  two  articles  apiece. 
The  Chronicle  editor  then  announced  that  the  series  were  closed.  Frue  to 
form  the  Dallas  critic  came  back  with  paid  advertisement.  I  then  Kave  him 
a  hyperdermic  shot  of  70  inches  of  paid  ad.  in  order  to  help  quiet  the  brain- 
storm which  had  been  entertaining  the  public.  Now,  as  our  Dallas  friend 
says  he  has  enough  I  am  perfectly  willing  to  take  a  rest  for  the  holiday. 
Hence  I  wish  him  and  all  other  Christian  Scientists  a  ''Merry  Christmas"  and 
a  "Joyous  New  Year."  My  greetings  are  a  full  stocking  and  a  fat  basket 
for  1921. 

Nothing  I  have  said  was  meant  to  cast  a  reflection  upon  the  personal  char- 
acter of  the  Dallas  Scientist  or  any  other  person  of  that  faith.  I  presume 
that  Christian  Scientists  are  as  upright  in  business  dealings  and  in  per- 
sonal cleanliness  and  otherwise  as  anyone  else.  Their  zeal  for  a  religious 
system  of  creeds  not  founded  on  Christ  and  not  supported  by  the  Bible,  facts, 
and  reason  makes  it  mighty  awkward  for  any  of  them  to  attempt  to  defend 
their  position.  This  is  especially  true  when  such  attempt  is  made  by  a  series 
of  discussions  through  a  daily  newspaper.  I  did  not  attempt  to  turn  Scientists 
from  the  error  of  their  way  as  most  of  them  are  hopelessly  entangled.  My 
object  was  to  let  the  public  in  on  some  things  I  felt  it  would  like  to  know. 
From  the  many  enquiries  made  to  me  here  and  elsewhere  I  feel  confident 
t}:at  my  object  will  be  fully  realized  thru  these  articles  in  Chronicle, 

Those  who  have  read  my  articles  know  that  the  main  theme  was  to 
exalt  the  Lordship  of  Jesus  Christ  and  the  atonement.  Nobody  denies  these 
two  great  fundamentals  of  Christianity  more  than  Mrs.  Eddy  did.  It  will  be 
safe  to  offer  a  good  house  and  lot  with  clear  title  in  the  City  of  Denton  to  any 
Christian  Scientist  in  America  or  elsewhere  that  could  show  just 
one  place  where  Mary  Baker  Eddy's  writings  ever  admitted  the 
"DEITY  OF  CHRIST  and  THE  ATONEMENT  by  BLOOD."  To  deny 
one  is  to  deny  both.  To  deny  either  is  to  deny  every  fundamental  doctrine  of 
Christianity  because  it  is  built  on  the  risen  Lord.  The  Bible  everywhere  exalts 
Jesus  Christ  as  God.  Jesus  Himself  said  He  was  God.  See  John  10:30  3G,  14:6. 
9,  17:1-3.  The  Disciples  said  He  was  God.  See  John  1:29,  34.  G:6S,  13:13,  20:2S. 
Col.  1:19,  2:9.     1  Tim.  3:16.  6:14,  15.     2  Tim.  4:1-8.     Heb.  l;6-8,  13;8. 

It  is  not  a  question  of  difference  between  me  and  the  Dallas  critic.  It 
is  not  a  question  of  difference  between  me  and  any  other  so-called  Christian 
Scientist.  The  crux  of  the  whole  matter  is  whether  Jesus  Christ  is  the  risen 
Lord  or  whether  Mrs.  Eddy  is  the  true  prophet.  Whether  man  must  be  saved 
by  accepting  the  Lord  Jesus  as  a  personal  Savior  or  whether  one  must  accept 
Mother  Eddy  as  their  true  guide  for  salvation.  There  is  absolutely  no  middiv' 
ground.  Either  Jesus  Christ  is  the  Lord  or  Mrs.  Eddy  is  the  true  prophet. 
If  a  person  accepts  one  he  must  necessarily  reject  the  other.  God  accepted 
Clirist's  atonement  by  raising  Him  from  the  dead.  Mrs.  Eddy  denies  both  the 
resurrection  and  the  atonement.  She  says  Christ  never  died.  "Jeous  students 
not  sufi"iciently  advanced  to  understand  their  Master's  triumph  did  not  per- 
form any  wonderful  work  until  they  saw  Him  after  His  crucifixion  and  learn- 
ed that  He  had  not  died."  I  copied  ttiis  statement  from  the  latest  revision  of 
Sr'ience  and  Health,  Page  45,  I  showed  it  to  the  editor  of  the  Record-Chronicle. 
If  anyone  doubts  this  ask  him.     Now  who  is  false? 

The  Bible  makes  Christianity  answer  for  its  very  life  on  the  basis  of 
the  blood  atonement  and  resurrection  of  the  Lord  Jesus.  See  1  Cor.  15.  Mrs. 
Lddy,  in  unmistakable  terms  denies  the  atonement.  She  says:  "The  atone- 
ment requires  constant  SELF-IMMOLATION  on  the  sinner's  part.  That 
C;o(l's  wrath  should  be  vented  upon  His  b':'loved  Son  in  DIVINELY  UNNAT- 
URAL. Such  a  theory  is  MAN  MADE."  Was  there  ever  greater  blasplie'vv 
than  this?  A  self-appointed  woman  attempting  to  tell  God  how  to  run  Hi;^ 
business.  I  copied  her  statement  from  page  23  Science  and  Health's  kites • 
revision.    I  also  showed  the  book  to  the  Editor.    If  any  one  dotibts  it,  ask  hiju. 

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Now  who  is  puUinft-  out  putrid  maltor?.  The  Dallas  critic  appears  to  bo 
i:bout  as  hard  up  for  truth  as  the  old  stingy  ranchman  was  for  honey.  He 
crossed  his  bees  with  the  lightning  bugs  so  they  could  work  at  night.  Christ- 
ian Science  is  about  as  practical  as  the  old  man  who  owned  the  cat  with  ten 
kittens.  He  cut  eleven  holes  in  the  front  door  to  facilitate  exit  and  entrance 
troubles.    Where  is  the  Christian  part  of  it  anyway  if  Christ  is  left  out? 

I  wish  to  ask  the  public  this  question:  If  Jesus  Christ,  Christianity  and 
tiie  Bible  are  true,  can  Mrs.  Eddy  and  Christian  Science  be  right?  Let's  see 
what  a  Christian  Scientist  has  to  believe  in  order  to  be  a  real  follower  of 
Mrs.  Eddy.  Of  Jesus  Christ  she  says:  "The  virgin  mother  conceived  this 
idea  of  God  and  gave  to  her  ideal  the  name  Jesus.  Jesus  was  the  off -spring 
of  Mary's  self-conscious  communion  with  God.  This  is  awful  for  anybody 
to  accept.  God  named  Him  Jesus  and  says  He  was  conceived  by  the  Holy 
Ghost.  See  Mt.  1:18-25.  She  plunges  farther  into  blasphemy  and  says  of 
Christ:  "To  accommodate  Himself  to  immature  ideas  of  spiritual  power 
Jesus  called  the  body  flesh  and  bones.  These  utterances  show  the  concessions 
He  was  willing  to  make  to  popular  ignorance."  This  statement  makes  Jesus 
deceiver,  liar  and  imposter.  Deceiver,  because  He  accommodated  Himself  to 
false  ideas.  Liar  because  He  wilfully  misrepresnted  his  body  and  failed  to 
correct  the  popular  ignorance.  Imposter,  because  He  accepted  worship  from 
those  whom  He  had  deceived  and  lied  to.  Mrs.  Eddy  beats  the  Pharisees  in 
deceiving  people  and  they  put  Christ  to  death. 

Just  to  show  the  public  that  I  have  not  attempted  to  mislead  them  as 
the  Dallas  critic  says  I  have  done,  I  am  going  to  give  further  proof  from 
Mrs.  Eddy's  own  words  about  the  Lord  Jesus.  She  says  "Christ  is  the  im- 
personal Savior."  This  makes  Him  a  sort  of  a  blessed  nobody.  She  says 
"Christ  is  a  divine  ideal."  I  suppose  she  was  the  "married  ideal."  She  says 
"Jesus  Christ  is  not  God  as  He  is  said  to  have  declared."  Jesus  says  "I  and 
My  Father  are  one."  John  10:30.  These  are  only  a  few  of  the  many  gross 
misrepresentations  of  the  Lordship  of  Jesus  Christ  made  by  this  woman 
who  heralds  herself  as  an  "apostle  of  light."  Well,  she  with  other  so-called 
apostles  of  light  are  very  much  like  the  old  colored  lady  that  always  wasted 
a  bushel  of  words  in  a  spoonful  of  thought.  Also  somewhat  like  Mutt  and 
Jeff's  fifty-fifty  pie — one  rabbit  and  one  mule.  The  Dallas  critic  raves  about 
my  unnecessary  concern  over  Mrs.  Eddy's  literary  standing.  And  he  compares 
her  with  Christ's  being  discredited  by  bigotry  and  ecclesiasticism  on  the 
basis  of  His  "having  never  learned."  Why  then  did  Mrs.  Eddy  so  constantly 
discredit  Christ  by  denying  His  Lordship?  No  system  is  more  guilty  of 
bigotry  and  ecclesiasticism  than  Christian  Science.  They  deny  the  funda- 
mentals of  Christianity  by  repudiating  Christ's  atonement  and  other  cardinal 
truths  as  has  been  shown  in  all  my  articles.     Can  you  beat  it? 

The  Dallas  critic;  says  "the  statement  that  Mrs.  Eddy  never  healed  a 
malignant  form  of  disease  would  be  very  difficult  for  the  minister  to  es- 
tablish." What  I  really  said  was  that  Mrs.  Eddy  claimed  to  have  cured  con- 
sumption, cancer  and  other  violent  diseases  and  that  she  never  in  a  single  in- 
stance submitted  proof  of  her  claims.  Our  Dallas  friend  says  he  numbers 
among  his  friends  many  persons  given  up  by  physicians  as  hopeless  yet  he 
fails  to  submit  a  single  proof  of  his  friends  who  have  been  healed.  The  day 
has  passed  when  people  accept  mere  statements  as  proofs.  This  is  especially 
true  in  scientific  matters.  Recently  a  man  who  had  read  my  third  article  in 
The  Chronicle  called  me  up  by  phone  and  represented  himself  as  being  from 
New  York  City  and  said  he  wanted  me  to  know  that  Christian  Science  had 
healed  him  of  tuberculosis.  He  never  submitted  any  proof  whatever.  I 
v/ould  be  a  plain  fool  to  accept  mere  statements  from  a  stranger  on  matters 
of  that  kind.  If  he  or  you  have  the  proof  why  was  it  not  given?  Name 
and  address  of  three  doctors  that  pronounced  the  disease  incurable.  Name 
and  address  of  practitioner  that  effected  the  cure  and  then  give  names  and 
addresses  of  three  doctors  that  pronounced  the  disease  as  cured.  This  is 
business,  mere  words  don't  prove  a  claim. 

Such  claims   of  cures   without  proof   is  characteristic   of  the   Christian 

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Scientists.  Mrs.  Eddy  claimed  that  Christian  Science  was  warranted  to 
grow  teeth  at  ninety.  '  See  her  book  "Science  and  Health,"  page  143,  164th 
edition.  This  is  great  stuff  isn't  it?  Where  is  the  proof?  Mrs.  Eddy  says 
if  it  were  not  for  mortal  mind,  "You  may  gash  the  body  with  an  ax,  pound 
it  to  a  pulp  with  a  club  and  experience  no  more  pain  than  a  wounded  tree." 
See  S.  H.,  page  485,  164th  Ed.  Do  you  wonder  why  the  Dallas  gentlemen  is 
ready  to  quit?  To  defend  stuff  like  this  one  would  have  to  sleep  in  a  round 
house  and  sop  syrup  with  a  corkscrew.  She  says  Christian  Science  is  able 
to  replace  a  man's  lost  leg  "not  with  an  artificial  one  but  with  a  genuine 
one."  See  S.  H.,  page  485,  i64th  Ed.  Such  bunk  as  this  reminds  me  of  the  12- 
year-old  boy,  Rube  Tincannon  from  Baregrass  town,  drinking  his  first  soda 
pop  at  the  county  fair.  His  mother  refused  to  share  the  new  found  joy  in 
bottle  goods.  Holding  the  sparkling  scarlet  liquid  aloft  he  said:  "Oh,  mama, 
do  take  some!  It's  just  sweet  wind."  The  apostle  Paul  warns  us  against 
windy  doctrines;  Eph.  4:14  and  philosophical  balloons.  Col.  3:8.  The  Dallas 
critic  should  not  blame  me  for  bursting  his  toy  balloon.  He  stuck  it  under  my 
nose.  I  merely  stuck  a  pin  of  truth  in  it  to  see  if  it  were  solid.  Sweet  wind 
may  taste  good  and  look  beautiful  but  it  is  not  a  good  fat  producer.  "BOOM." 
The  Dallas  critic  says  he  is  willing  for  the  public  to  judge  the  merits 
of  Christian  Science  based  on  these  articles.  This  is  fair  enough  and  it  cer- 
tainly suits  me.  He  did  his  best  considering  his  handicap  and  that's  all 
Liza  could  do  when  she  fought  Rastus  over  an  argument  as  to  whether  Sambo 
was  the  16th  child  or  the  21st.  They  finally  compromised  and  decided  he 
was  the  28th.  I  hereby  extend  a  hearty  invitation  to  Mr.  Brigman  C.  Odom 
and  all  Christian  Scientists  and  to  the  reading  public  to  worship  with  us  at 
their  convenience  at  Central  Presbyterian  Church,  Denton,  Texas. 

A.  REILLY  COPELAND,  Pastor. 
December  22,   1920. 


NOTE — Some  worldly  minded  church  members  expressed  sympathy  for 
tlie  author  concerning  these  discussions  for  fear  he  would  lose  friends.  He 
publicly  acknowledged  it  and  in  turn  expressed  his  pity  at  such  consummate 
ignorance  of  perhaps  sincere  yet  deluded  people. 

FRIENDSHIP  (?)  "Ye  adulterers  and  adulteresses,  know  ye  not  that 
tlie  friendship  of  the  world  is  enmity  with  God?  Whosoever  therefore  will 
be  a  friend  of  the  world  is  the  enemy  of  God." — Jas.  4:4. 

PROTECTOR— "What  shall  we  then  say  to  these  things  ?  If  God  be  for 
us,  who  can  be  against  us?" — Rom.  8:31. 

SAFETY — "The  fear  of  man  bringeth  a  snare;  but  whoso  putteth  his 
trust  in  the  Lord  shall  be  safe." — Prov.  29:25. 

MAN — "Cease  ye  from,  man  whose  breath  is  in  his  nostrils;  for  wherein 
is  he  to  be  accounted  of  ?"— Isa.  2:22. 

READ  your  Bible.— Isa.  8:20. 


CHAPTER  IX. 

Does  Christian  Science  Lead  to  Heaven? 

Christian  Science — a  knowledge  of  Christianity  systematized  and  classi- 
fied: That  sounds  good  to  the  heart  that  feels  its  sins  and  desires  to  ujider- 
stand  God's  plan  of  salvation,  a  plan  that  provides  a  Savior,  the  God-man, 
who  bore  man's  sins  to  the  Cross  and  by  His  precious  Blood  made  a  fuH 
and  eternal  atonement  for  them,  and  thus  opened  the  door  to  Heaven.  But 
as  we  read  the  pages  of  the  book,  "Science  and  Health;  with  Key  to  the 
Scriptures,"  which  sets  forth  the  system  called  Christian  Science,  the 
shadows  seem  to  fall  upon  our  understanding,  and  while  our  heads  whirl  we 
wonder  whether  the  author  of  the  book  and  the  founder  of  the  system,  Mrs. 

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Mary  Baker  Eddy,  has  lost  her  reason,  or  whether  we  are  losing  ours,  and 
vve  close  the  woman's  book  and  walk  out  under  the  sky  with  the  Book  of 
God  in  our  hand,  and  with  its  Life-giving  words  before  us  we  can  only  con- 
clude that  Mrs.  Eddy's  system  is  neither  Christian  nor  scientific,  and  that  if 
believed  in  and  followed  it  will  engulf  its  votaries  in  darkness  and  eternal 
misery. 

We  ask  our  readers  therefore  to  carefully  follow  us  as  we  present  some 
of  the  strange  and  peculiar  vagaries  of  this  soul-destroying  movement. 

FIRST:    CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  AND  THE  BIBLE  / 

Christian  Science  is  a  system  of  philosophy  which  bears  the  name  of 
Christ  while  denying  His  person  and  His  work;  it  claims  to  be  derived  from 
the  Bible,  but  in  reality  it  is  only  metaphysical  speculation  which  has  bor- 
rowed some  Biblical  names.  Its  fundamental  idea  is  that  God — Mind,  Spirit, 
Good — is  all-in-all;  therefore  the  opposite  of  God — matter,  sin,  sickness,  and 
death — are  nothing,  do  not  exist.  In  Mrs.  Eddy's  expositions  of  Scripture 
she  ignores  the  natural  meaning  of  words,  and  forces  this  one  idea  into  it  by 
allegorical  and  "Spiritual"  interpretations,  which  the  natural  sense  never 
suggested  and  never  could  suggest. 

1.     The  Creation  is  Denied. 

At  the  very  outset,  Mrs.  Eddy's  theory  denies  the  reality  of  the  material 
creation;  therefore  she  empties  the  first  chapter  of  Genesis  of  all  its  refer- 
ences to  this  subject,  by  saying — 

"The  creation  consists  in  the  unfolding  of  spiritual  ideas  and  their 
identities." 

The  light  is,  "The  revelation  of  truth  and  spiritual  ideas." 

The  firmament  is,  "Spiritual  understanding  by  which  human  concep- 
tions, material  sense,  is  separated  from  truth." 

"And  God  said,  Let  the  water  be  gathered  together,"  means,  "Spirit, 
God,  gathers  unformed  thoughts  into  their  proper  channels  and  unfolds  these 
thoughts." 

"And  God  said,  Let  Us  make  man  in  Our  image,  after  Our  likeness,"  is 
explained  thus:  "As  the  reflection  of  yourself  appears  in  the  mirror,  so 
you,  being  spiritual,  are  the  reflection  of  God.  Man  and  woman  as  co- 
existent and  eternal  v/ith  God  forever  reflect  in  glorified  quality,  the  infinite 
Father-Mother  God."     ("Science  and  Health,"  Edition  1914,  Pages  502,  etc.) 

2.     Sin  and  Its  Origin  are  Denied. 

The  second  and  third  chapters  of  Genesis  record  that  God  made  Adam  out 
of  the  dust  of  the  earth  and  that  he  disobeyed  God;  and  we  read  in  Romans 
5:12,  "By  one  man  sin  entered  the  v/orld,  and  death  by  sin."  But  in  Science 
and  Health,"  Page  310,  Mrs.  Eddy  claims  that  there  is  no  human  soul  that 
sins;  and  on  Page  182  of  her  "Miscellaneous  Writings,"  she  states,  "Man  was 
never  lost  in  Adam,  since  he  is  and  ever  was  the  image  and  likeness  of  God, 
good;"  and  again,  "The  great  spiritual  fact  must  be  brought  out,  that  man 
is,  not  shall  be,  perfect  and  immortal."  iThus  she  contradicts  and  sets  at 
naught  the  plain  statements  of  God's  Word. 

3.     The  Scriptures  are  Changed. 

I  If  words  do   not  suit  Mrs.   Eddy,   she   alters  them   to  answer  her  pur- 

I  pose;  as  the  following  quotations  from  her  book  plainly  show: 
i  "In  Science  we  learn  that  it  is  material  sense,  not  soul,  which  sins,  and  it 

t  Vv'ill  be  found  that  it  is  the  sense  of  sin  which  is  lost,  and  not  a  sinful  soul. 
t  When  reading  the  Scriptures,  the  substitution  of  the  word  'Sense'  for  'Soul' 
gives  the  exact  meaning  in  a  majority  of  cases."    Page  481. 

"With  his  stripes  (rejection  of  error)  we  are  healed."     Page  20. 
"The   spirit    (error)    cried,    and   rent   liim    sore,   and    came    out    of   him  " 
Page  398. 

I  -33- 


Jesus  cast  out  devils  (delusions).     Pag^e  348. 

Angels  are  God's  thoughts  passing  to  men. 

The  devil — evil,  a  belief  in  sin,  sickness  and  death. 

Flesh — an  error  in  physical  belief. 

Hell— mortal  belief,  error,  lust,  remorse,  hatred,  sickness,  death,  etc. 

Holy  Ghost,  Comforter — "Divine  Science." 

Lamb  of  God — the  spiritual  idea  of  love,  sacrifice,  self-immolation. 

Lord  Jehovah — "A  physical  name  of  God  as  finite  and  corporeal;  from 
this  follows  idolatry  and  mythology." 

Resurrection — material  belief  yielding  to  understanding.  ''Science  and 
Health,"  Pages  581,  etc. 

Nothing  is  too  sacred  to  escape  her  perverting  hand,  and  she  empties  the 
Bible  of  all  meaning.  By  such  a  method  of  interpretation  it  can  be  v/arped 
to  fit  any  grotesque  or  wicked  doctrine;  it  loses  its  authority,  and  ceases  to  be 
a  sure  guide.  Kind  words  are  spoken  of  the  Bible,  but  it  must  be  read  with 
''Science  and  Health"  for  one's  eyes,  "Science  and  Health"  for  one's  brain,  and 
"Science  and  Health"  as  the  final  criterion  of  truth, 

SECOND:     THE  FOUNDATION   OF  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE. 

Christian  Science  rests  upon  the  authority  of  Mrs.  Eddy,  nothing  more. 
She  says — 

"You  do  not  deny  the  mathematician's  right  to  distinguish  the  correct 
from  the  incorrect  among  the  axamples  on  the  blackboard,  nor  disbelieve  the 
musician  when  he  distinguishes  concord  from  discord.  In  like  manner  it 
should  be  granted  that  the  author  understands  what  she  is  saying.  If  one  of 
the  statements  in  this  book  is  true,  every  one  must  be  true."     Pages  453,  547. 

Her  assertions  are  not  self-evident  truths,  for  they  contradict  both  ex- 
perience and  common  sense.  And  they  are  not  proved,  for  they  deal  with 
matters  beyond  the  range  of  human  discovery,  and  rest  only  on  metaphysical 
sophistry.  Yet  this  mere  woman — who  has  already  paid  her  debt  to  nature 
and  gone  to  death  like  any  common  mortal — expectea  us  to  unquestioningly 
accept  her  authority  and  teachings;  and  her  numerous  followers  continue  U: 
make  the  same  claims. 

THIRD:     CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  DOCTRINES. 

1.     Mind   versus   Matter — the   Great   Opponents. 

"Spirit,  God,  has  created  all  in  and  of  Himself.  Spirit  never  created 
matter.  There  is  nothing  in  Spirit  out  of  which  matter  could  be  made." 
Page  335. 

God  is  mind,  and  God  is  infinite;  hence  all  is  mind."     Page  492. 

"The  three  great  verities  of  Spirit,  omnipotence,  omnipresence,  omni- 
science— Spirit  possessing  all  power,  filling  all  space,  constituting  all  Science — 
contradict  forever  the  belief  that  matter  can  be  actual."     Page  10:). 

"Mind  and  matter  are  opposites;  if  one  is  real,  the  otlier  must  be  unreal." 
Page  270. 

"God,  Spirit,  being  all,  nothing  is  matter." 

How  does  Mrs.  Eddy  know  that  Spirit  never  created  matter,  or  that  God 
could  create  nothing  without  using  His  own  Essence  as  the  material?  How 
does  she  know  that  mind  and  matter  are  so  oppi.^site  that  both  cannot  be  real? 
Ifow  does  she  know  that  the  omni-presence  of  Spirit  precludes  the  reality  of 
J. latter? 

She  denies  that  man  is  both  mental  and  material,  asserting  that  mind 
cannot  be  in  matter.  We  see  a  piece  of  soft  iron  one  moment  dead  and  cold, 
and  the  next  moment  pervaded  in  every  atom  by  a  mysterious,  subtle,  power- 
ful something  we  call  electricity,  and  straightway  that  dead  inert  mattt-r 
becomes  a  powerful  thing  that  picks  up  heavy  weights  and  moves  the  wheels 
of  factories.  Some  one  presses  a  button  and  the  iron  is  inert  again.  How 
does  Mrs.  Eddy  know  that  mind,  spirit,  cannot  in  like  manner  permeate 
matter? 

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The  fact  is,  man  has  never  discovered  the  nature  of  matter,  nor  com- 
prehended the  beinji'  of  God  throuy-h  metaphysics.  It  is  presumptuous  to  say 
the  least,  for  a  mortal  to  make  such  assertions,  and  it  is  foolish  to  believe 
them.     We  are  told  that — 

"The  divine  metaphysics  in  Christian  Science  like  the  method  in  niath- 
ematics  proves  the  rule  by  inversion.  For  example:  There  is  no  pain  in 
truth,  and  no  truth  in  pain;  no  nerve  in  mind,  and  no  mind  in  nerve;  no  mat- 
ter in  mind,  and  no  mind  in  matter;  no  matter  in  life,  and  no  life  in  matter; 
no  matter  in  good,  and  no  good  in  matter."     Page  113. 

By  inversion  we  could  also  prove,  that  because  there  is  no  sleep  in  good, 
there  is  no  good  in  sleep;  or  no  onion  in  odor,  and  no  odor  in  onion. 

2.     The  "Mortal  Mind"— the  Great  Scapegoat. 

To  account  for  the  material  things  of  which  we  are  sensible,  Mrs.  Eddy 
invented  "Mortal  mind."     This  is  defined  as — 

"A  false  sense  of  matter,  a  false  belief  that  mind  is  in  matter  and  is 
both  evil  and  good."    Pages  103,  399. 

Our  mortal  existence — living  in  a  material  body  is  but  a  dream  of  "Mortal 
mind,"  as  unreal  as  the  dreams  of  sleep.    Page  18S. 

Sickness,  health,  pain,  and  sin  are  only  beliefs  of  "Mortal  mind."  "Mor- 
tal mind"  alone  causes  weariness,  for  a  wheel  does  not  grow  weary.  "Mortal 
mind"  alone  gives  drugs  their  effects,  and  if  a  person  swallows  arsenic  by 
mistake,  the  belief  of  the  vast  majority  of  human  beings  that  arsenic  is 
poison,  causes  death,  even  though  he  was  unaware  that  he  had  swallowed 
it.     Page  178. 

"Mortal  mind"  causes  the  blacksmith's  arm  to  grow  large  through  use, 
while  the  hammer  is  not  enlarged  by  use,  as  nobody  believes  that  mind  is 
producing  such  a  result  in  the  hammer.     Page  199. 

"Erring,  mortal,  misnamed  *Mind'  produces  all  the  organism  and  action 
of  the  mortal  body."    Page  108. 

If  the  consensus  of  "Mortal  mind"  were  to  agree  in  thinking  that  man 
has  three  legs,  we  suppose  that  straightway  he  would  have  three  legs. 

"A  dislocation  of  the  tarsal  (ankle)  joint  would  produce  insanity  as  per- 
ceptibly as  would  congestion  of  the  brain  were  it  not  that  'Mortal  mind'  thinks 
that  the  tarsal  joint  is  less  intimately  connected  with  the  mind  than  is  the 
brain.  Reverse  the  belief  and  the  results  would  be  perceptibly  different." 
Page  408. 

"Mortal  mind"  alone  makes  people  grow  old,  and  die.     Pages  245,  75. 

And  finally  we  learn  that  "Mortal  mind"  itself  has  no  reality,  but  is  a 
myth,  to  be  destroyed  by  denying  its  reality.     Page  296. 

A  wonderful  thing,  "Mortal  mind!"  yet  Mrs.  Eddy  has  not  a  word  to 
say  as  to  where  i%  came  from!  Her  abstract  philosophy,  reasoning  about 
things  the  human  mind  knows  almost  nothing  about,  concludes  that  there  is 
no  reality  to  matter  and  to  mortal  existence;  therefore  she  asks  us  to  believe 
that  the  material  world  with  the  humanity  that  fills  it  is  but  the  illusion  of 
a  mentality  that  is  itself  an  illusion! 

3.     Evil— the  Great  Unreality. 

In  the  same  way  she  reasons  about  evil. 

"Evil  has  no  reality.    It  is  neither  person,  place,  nor  thing,  but  is  simply 
a  belief,  an  illusion  of  material  sense."     Page  71. 
1  God  says  that  evil  is  a  state  of  heart  and  of  will,  and  that  it  is  found  in 

j!   men. 

I  "All  reality  is  in  God.    That  which  He  creates  is  good,  and  He  makes  all 

I  that  is  made.  Therefore  the  only  reality  of  sin,  sickness  or  death  is  the 
I  awful  fact  that  unrealities  seem  real  to  human  erring  belief  until  God  strips 
(    off  their  disguise."     Page  472. 

These  wicked  statements  that  evil  has  no  reality,  are  samples  of  the 
miserable  metaphysical  sophistry  of  the  whole  system,  and  disclose  the  pit 


from  which  it  had  its  source.     Evil  only  an  illusion?     Would   God  it  were 
true! 

4.     The  "Unreal  Man"— the  Great  Sinner. 

As  to  man,  Christian  Science  teaches — 

The  real  man  is  the  reflection  of  God,  eternal,  co-existent  with  God,  in- 
capable of  sini  for  the  soul  or  mind  of  the  real,  or  spiritual  man,  is  God. 
Pages  204,  475,  477,  347. 

"Mortal  mind"  is  the  only  evil  doer.     Pages  71,  105. 

"There  is  no  human  soul  that  sins  and  is  spiritually  lost,  but  it  is  a  sense 
of  sin,  and  not  a  sinful  soul,  that  is  lost."     Pages  310,  311. 

There  is  no  final  judgment,  no  devil,  and  no  hell.     Pages  291,  469,  266. 

In  other  words,  this  system  claims  that  the  real  man  has  been  covered  up 
by  an  unreal  man  which  we  call  ourselves,  and  this  unreal  man  is  the  author 
of  all  our  evil  deeds;  having  no  reality,  it  simply  disappears  when  properly 
denied,  leaving  the  real  man,  which  was  always  perfect.  That  is  to  say,  there 
is  no  guilt  incurred  in  wrong-doing,  no  accountability  for  wrong-doing,  no 
punishment  hereafter  for  wrong-doing.  What  would  the  enemy  of  souls  like 
to  have  men  believe  more  than  this!  But  the  Scriptures  thunder:  "Be  not 
deceived;  God  is  not  mocked." 

"If  we  say  that  we  have  no  sin,  we  deceive  ourselVes  and  the  truth  is 
not  in  us.  If  we  say  that  we  have  not  sinned  we  make  Him  a  liar,  and  His 
Word  is  not  in  us."    1  John  1:8,  10. 

"Who  will  render  to  every  man  according  to  his  deeds:  tribulation  and 
anguish,  upon  every  soul  of  man  that  doeth  evil."     Rom.  2:6,  9. 

"The  Lord  cometh  with  ten  thousands  of  His  saints  to  execute  judgment 
upon  all,  and  to  convince  all  that  are  ungodly  among  them  of  all  their  ungodly 
deeds  which  they  have  ungodly  committed,  and  of  all  their  hard  speeches 
which  ungodly  sinners  have  spoken  against  Him."    Jude  14,  15. 

5.     The  Healing  of  Sickness — the  Great  Bait. 

Does  the  healing  of  the  sick  prove  Christian  Science  to  be  "Absolute  and 
divine"  as  Mrs.  Eddy  claims?  It  does  not.  God  has  warned  us  in  His  Word 
that  wicked  doctrines  will  appear,  supported  by  miracles  and  wonders. 

"Now  the  Spirit  speaketh  expressly,  that  in  the  latter  times  some  sliall 
depart  from  the  faith,  giving  heed  to  seducing  spirits,  and  doctrines  of 
devils."     1  Tim.  4:1,  2. 

"And  then  shall  that  Wicked  be  revealed,  whose  coming  is  after  the 
working  of  Satan  with  all  power  and  signs  and  lyin^^  wonders,  and  with  all 
deceivableness  of  unrighteousness  in  them  that  perish;  because  they  received 
not  the  love  of  the  truth,  that  they  might  bo  saved."    1  Thess.  2:8-10. 

And  we  learn  in  Revelation  13:13-14  of  one  who  is  to  appear,  d  >inp-  orojit 
wonders  and  deceiving  them  that  dwell  on  the  earth  by  means  of  those  mi- 
racles which  he  had  power  to  do. 

None  of  us  like  to  suffer  and  be  sick,  and  we  readily  grasp  at  nnvt!n'nf>- 
that  promises  relief.  Many  persons  have  embraced  Christian  Science  for  the 
sake  of  healing,  who  have  not  understood  tlie  real  nature  of  its  trfachin^s. 
But  some  things  are  worse  than  pain  and  sickness,  and  one  o^'  them  is,  to  be 
well  at  the  risk  of  the  soul. 

6.     Happiness  and   Serenity — the  Great   Aim. 

It  is  sometimes  objected  that  Christian  Science  cannot  be  so  bad  be- 
cause it  makes  people  so  happy  and  serene,  and  develops  in  them  such  beau- 
tiful character.  But  their  serenity  comes  from  the  persuasion  tliat  evil  is  un- 
real; sorrow,  causeless;  death,  nothinti-;  sin,  a  myth;  judgment,  a  fiction; 
and  everything  lovely — if  we  will  but  think  so.  It  is  a  fool's  paradise,  from 
which  will  come  a  terrible  awakening.  As  to  produciuT  lovely  c  laractor.  it 
may  take  the  "Grouch"  out  of  a  man,  or  render  a  fretting,  impatient  woman 
more  calm  and  agreeablie,  but  it  fails  to  produce  sympathy,  compassion  and 
self-sacrificing  love  that  denies   itself  and   bleeds   in   the   service   of   others. 

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Tlioro  is  no  true  loveliness  of  character  without  this.  Christian  Scientists 
may  believe  that  this  mortal  life  is  a  dream,  and  matter  an  illusion,  but  they 
take  plenty  o^  pains  to  see  that  it  shall  be  a  pleasant  dream. 

FOURTH:     CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  IS  SATANIC  AND  ANTI-CHRISTIAN. 

It  teaches  that  God  is  only  a  principle,  inseparable  from  and  non-exist- 
ing* apart  from  the  universe.     Pag'es  470,  477,  502. 

Jesus  was  only  a  man,  not  God  incarnate  in  the  flesh.    Page  473. 

Jesus  did  not  really  die.     Page  44,  45. 

The  atonement  is  the  exemplification  of  man's  unity  with  God.     Page  18. 

One  sacrifice,  however  great,  is  insufficient  to  pay  the  debt  of  sin. 
Page  23. 

**He  is  Antichrist  that  denieth  the  Father  and  the  Son."    1  John  2:22. 

Christian  Science  combines  Rationalism,  Unitarianism,  New  Theology, 
and  the  Pantheistic  philosophies  of  the  past  and  present;  it  robs  its  ad-' 
herents  of  the  Word  of  God,  and  destroys  the  Gospel  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 
It  is  the  essence  of  Satanic  and  Antichristian  religion. 

The  human  mind  is  erring  at  best,  and  metaphysics  is  a  slippery,  winding 
path  that  never  leads  to  the  knowledge  of  God.  Why  do  men  cling  to  a  sys- 
tem that  robs  them  of  a  Savior,  makes  His  cross  of  none  effect,  and  tramples 
under  foot  the  precious  Blood  that  can  alone  cleanse  from  sin;  thereby  be- 
guiling them  into  the  sweet  but  fatal  dream  that  there  is  no  sin,  no  devil,  no 
death,  no  judgment,  and  no  hell?  Why  will  they  hang  the  destiny  of  their 
souls  upon  the  devil-inspired  sophistry  of  this  woman,  instead  of  the  sure 
Word  of  the  Gospel, — Christ  crucified,  the  wisdom  of  God  and  the  power  of 
God?  Her  teachings  are  obscrue,  abstruse  and  confusing,  and  give  the  lie 
to  the  conscience  and  consciousness  of  man,  as  well  as  to  the  Scriptures, 
v/hile  the  Word  of  God  is  so  plain  that  a  child  can  understand  it,  and  even  a 
fool  need  not  err  therein,  for  it  makes  wise  the  simple.  Christian  Science  is 
naught  but  quicksand;  God's  Word  is  the  Rock  of  Ages. 

Believing  that  Christian  Science  leads  to  confusion  of  mind  and  a  de- 
parture from  the  Truth  of  God,  rather  than  to  Heaven,  we  do  implore  the 
help  of  our  God  as  we— SOUND  THE  ALARM! 

(Gospel  Union  Publishing  Co.,  Euclid  and  7th  St.,  Kansas  City,  Mo.) 
(In  tract  form.) 


CHAPTER  X. 
Christian  Science  Xrayed. 

A  writer  in  "The  Biblical  Review"  analyzes  Mrs.  Eddy's  cunning  plan  to 
have  herself  Deified  as  the  Messiah  in  second  coming.  She  says,  "The  first 
Messiah  was  a  man,  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  but  the  Messiah  came  again  and  the 
Revelator  shows  us  a  woman!"  "Jesus,"  she  goes  on  to  say,  *'had  His  day  and 
went  away.  Now  the  new  Christ,  a  woman,  is  come!"  If  providence  had  al- 
lowed her  a  little  more  rope,  she  would  have  gone  on  to  ask  actual  worship 
of  herself  as  a  god.  Her  death,  that  she  never  expected,  cut  short  much  oi 
cunning  scheming. —  (The  King's  Business.) 

We'll  have  to  hand  the  banner  to  the  ladies  for  one  thing  anyway — they 
comprise  85  per  cent  of  the  membership  of  the  Christian  Science  churches,  ac- 
cording to  latest  statistics.  In  the  evangelical  denominations,  there  has  been 
a  great  proportionate  gain  of  men,  the  figures  being  43  per  cent  men  and 
57  per  cent  women.  Either  more  men  are  joining  the  evangelical  churches 
or  a  lot  of  women  have  gone  over  to  "Mother  Eddy." — (The  King's  Business.) 

An  Eye  to  Business 

Did  Mrs.  Mary  Baker  Glover  Patterson  Eddy  Frye  have  an  eye  to  busi- 
ness? Read  what  she  wrote  in  her  1902  edition  of  the  Christian  Science 
Manual. —  (!The  King's  Business.) 

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The  Bait 

Falsehood  is  never  so  successful  as  when  she  baits  her  hook  with  truth. 
No  opinions  so  fatally  mislead  us  as  those  that  are  not  wholly  wrong;  as  no 
watches  so  effectually  deceive  the  wearer  as  those  that  are  sometimes  right. 
— Colton.     (The  King's  Business.) 

Flower  Beds  of  Ease. 

M.  E.  Wilson  says:  "One  of  the  keenest  observers  of  America  has  made 
the  remark  that  the  reason  so  many  isms  are  constantly  springing  up  is  be- 
cause the  old  gospel  is  so  hard  to  live.  People  are  looking  for  a  comfortable 
life  here  and  an  easy  way  to  heaven.  They  are  scanning  earth  and  sky  for  a 
royal  road.  The  fight  with  sin  which  the  gospel  demands  is  a  fierce  and  bit- 
ter fight  and  many  men  and  women  are  anxiously  searching  for  a  way  of  .< 
cape,  desiring  to  be  carried  to  the  skies  on  flowery  beds  of  ease.  It  is  this  de- 
sire that  lies  at  the  basis  of  Eddyism.  Its  fundamental  principle  is  that  sin 
has  no  existence.  It  may  be  banished  by  a  process  of  thought." — (The  King's 
Business). 

The  Godness  of  Good 

Among  the  many  perversions  and  distortions,  the  Name  of  God  has  suf- 
fered with  the  rest.  The  false  and  anti-Christian  systems  of  the  day  know 
not  God,  nor  can  they  spell  His  Name.  They  are  attempting  to  put  an  extra 
"0"  in  the  name  of  God. — Instead  of  G  O  D,  they  are  spelling  it  "good."  They 
have  made  a  God  out  of  good. 

It  is  quite  true  that  God  is  good,  but  good  is  not  God,  and  we  cannot 
accept  it  as  a  substitute.  These  false  philosophies  speak  of  the  "Godness 
o"*  good,"  but  never  of  the  goodness  of  God.  There  is  a  vast  difference  be- 
tween the  so-called  "Godness  of  good"  and  the  goodness  of  God.  To  know  the 
"Godness  of  good'  is  to  be  deceived  and  deluded  by  a  philosophy  which  is  not 
only  vain,  but  profane.  The  Godness  of  good  is  the  summary  of  a  satanic, 
subtile  and  so-called  scientific,  propaganda.  In  our  judgment  there  is  noth- 
ing scientific,  and  to  be  sure  it  is  not  Christian.  The  "Godness  of  good"  is 
nowhere  to  be  found  in  the  Scriptures  but  the  goodness  of  God  is  found 
tlirougliout  the  pages  of  the  Holy  Book. — .Tucker.  (The  Kin.t:;''R  Biisinor.s). 

Our  "Unscientific"  God 

When  a  dog  overeats,  it  has  sense  enough,  by  a  God-given  instinct,  to 
take  recourse  to  the  purgative  properties  of  certain  kind  of  grass.  At  the 
same  time  it  gives  its  stomach  a  rest  from  food  and  in  a  short  lime  is  re- 
stored to  natural  health.  If  Christian  Science  is  the  God-appointed  science  of 
keeping  the  body  in  health,  it  is  rather  strange  that  God  has  given  animals 
in  His  creation  an  instinct  that  immediately  recognizes  sickness  and  takes 
curative  measures.  Is  it  not  a  pity  that  there  is  no  way  of  communicating  to 
the  dumb  creatures  this  new  and  better  way  of  denying  disease?  How  ut- 
terly unscientific  our  Lord  Jesus  must  have  been  when  He  cured  diseases  by 
first  recognizing  them  and  then  castin<r  them  out  by  the  power  of  God. — A 
I. OS  Angeles  Physician.     (The  King's  Business) 

"Science"  and   Sympathy 

One  of  the  worst  forms  of  robbery  is  the  withholding  of  sympathy  and 
helpful  ministry  where  they  are  needed  and  where  we  can  give  it.  God  has 
given  us  eyes  to  see  sutfering,  tongues  to  speak  for  Him  and  hands  through 
vrhich  His  compassion  may  be  shown. 

The  secret  of  sympathy  lies  in  having  the  spirit  of  Christ  who  was 
"touched  with  the  feeling  of  our  infirmities."  As  we  are  like  Him,  we  will  be 
Compassionate  to  all  suffering  and  responsive  to  all  sorrow.  Christ  Himself 
is  the  Master-Comforter  because  He  ran  in  the  truest  sense  put  Himself  in 

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the  place  of  the  suffering  one.  The  word  "sympathy"  means  ''suffering  with" 
— and  implies  a  putting  of  ourselves  in  another  man's  place.  Hence  no  sel- 
fish person  can  be  truly  sympathetic. 

Today  we  have  a  system  of  religion  that  teaches,  as  Dr.  Torrey  has  said, 
"crystalized  selfishness."  That  system  is  Eddyism.  District  Attorney  Wool- 
wine  of  Los  Angeles  County  recently  started  a  campaign  to  punish  Christian 
Scientists  for  this  very  thing — the  wicked  neglect  of  their  own  suffering 
loved  ones;  little  children  left  in  agony;  aged  sufferers  left  to«  die  for  the 
want  of  a  little  attention.  And  Christian  Science  teaches  exactly  this.  Here 
are  a  few  quotations  from  their  text  book  to  prove  it: 

"Neither  sympathy  nor  society  should  ever  tempt  us  to  hear  about  error 
(suffering  is  defined  as  error  of  mortal  mind.  When  a  sufferer,  in  other  words 
relates  his  condition,  the  consistent  Eddyite  will  stop  his  ears). 

"If  an  invalid  becomes  impatient  with  your  explanation  of  Christian 
Science  and  is  unwilling  to  investigate  Science,  obey  the  Scripture  command 
and  come  out  from  among  them  and  be  ye  separate." 

"If  the  easel  is  that  of  a  young  child,  it  needs  to  be  met  through  the 
parents'  thoughts  silently  or  audibly  on  the  basis  of  Christian  Science.  *  *  ■' 
A  mother  runs  to  her  child  who  has  hurt  her  face.  The  successful  method  of 
treating  is  to  say  *0h  non-sense'  (no-sense  material).  'You  are  not  hurt,  so 
don't  think  you  are'." 

"If  the  sick  ask  about  their  disease,  assure  them  that  they  think  too 
much  about  their  ailment  and  have  already  heard  too  much  on  that  subject." 

"It  is  no  more  Christianly  scientific  to  see  disease  than  it  is  to  experience 
it." 

"So  long  as  drugs  are  administered,  or  external  application  prescribed, 
illness  cannot  be  treated  by  Christian  Science.  You  must  abide  by  the  divine 
principle  of  your  demonstration." 

If  anyone  wants  the  exact  references  for  the  above,  we  will  gladly  fur- 
nish them.  These  are  Mrs.  Eddy's  teachings  and  the  practices  of  those  who 
take  her  seriously.  Sympathy  for  the  suffering,  and  compassionate  ministry 
is  an  unknown  quality  in  true  Eddyites,  for  they  cannot  "suffer  with"*  the 
suffering.  The  most  careless  reading  of  the  New  Testament  will  grant  that 
the  spirit  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  not  in  these  teachings,  and  the  most 
careful  student  will  search  in  vain  for  any  such  nonsense  in  any  of  Christ's 
utterances.  God  forbid  that  anyone  claiming  the  name  "Christian"  should  be 
devoid  of  Christian  sympathy.  It  is  one  of  the  graces  of  the  Spirit — there 
is  a  great  lack  of  it  in  the  churches  today. — K.  L.  B..     (The  King's  Business). 

"S  and  H,"  A  Padlock  to  the  Scriptures 

It  is  impossible  to  "contend  for  the  faith  once  delivered"  without  "re- 
buking" (Titus  1:13)  those  who  seek  to  pervert  the  Gospel  truth  and  without 
"warning"  (Rom.  16:17)  those  who  are  being  blindly  led  away.  Hundreds  of 
intelligent  people  are  in  these  days  chasing  after  a  teaching  which  according 
to  Jesus  Christ  is  not  "Christian"  and  vi^hich  according  to  the  highest  scientific 
authorities  is  far  from  being  "science." 

The  popularity  of  "Eddyism"  as  a  system  of  religion  has  its  cause,  be- 
yond question,  in  the  fact  that  it  offers  to  make  the  way  to  heaven  broad, 
smooth,  and  exceedingly  easy  on  the  flesh.  It  requires  no  confession  of  sin, 
which  is  the  first  fundamental  of  Christianity  (Rom.  3:23)  and  it  professes 
to  give  personal  victory  without  any  conquest,  for  by  merely  thinking  so,  it 
turns  sins  into  virtues  and  transgressions  of  all  the  laws  of  nature  into  im- 
munity from  retributive  justice.  It  has  no  need  of  the  redemptive  work  that 
cost  infinite  suffering  to  Jesus  Christ  and  no  need  of  the  purifying  work  of 
the  Holy  Spirit  in  the  life.  The  mission  of  suffering,  without'  which  there 
never  would  have  been  a  real  religion — suffering,  which  as  one  has  said,  "is 
the  pruning  of  the  orchard  of  the  heart" — is  denied  and  its  lessons  therefore 
wholly  lost.  The  consistent  Christian  Scientist  cannot  be  "his  brother's 
keeper"  and  cannot  logically  extend   the  hand   of  mercy  to  those  who   are 

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troubled  and  ill,  for  to  do  so  would  be  a  recognition  of  the  realities  they  seek 
to  deny.  No  system  either  of  ethics  or  religion  practices  so  little  charity  as 
the  followers  of  Mrs.  Eddy. 

What  it  leads  to  as  a  system  of  science  is  suggested  by  the  drawmg  en- 
titled "Nobody  Home"  appearing  in  this  issue. 

A  Los  Angeles  physician  who  publishes  a  pamphlet  entitled,  A  Study 
of  the  REAL  Christian  Science,"  says: 

*lThe  utter  disregard  of  Christian  Scientists  for  hygienic  and  sanitary 
measures  in  matter  of  health — an  attitude  which  simply  amounts  to  a  de- 
fiance of  natural  and  evolutionary  laws — would,  if  carried  out  to  its  logical 
consequence,  bring  back  the  sanitation  of  our  hospitals  and  public  institutions 
to  a  level  corresponding  to  conditions  that  prevailed  at  the  time  when  the 
deadly  contagion  of  the  black  pest,  bubonic  plague,  cholera  morbus,  smallpox, 
etc.,  swept  over  the  hygienically  defenseless  commonwealths  of  the  old  world. 
And  yet  in  the  face  of  the  most  common  and  irrefutable  facts  as  to  the  im- 
manence to  health  of  general  sanitation,  the  Christian  Scientist  on  the  basis 
of  an  utterly  unsubstantial  "text  book"  continues  to  make  claims  that  mat- 
ter is  unreal  and  physical  conditions  powerless  to  affect,  in  one  way  or  other, 
the  state  of  individual  health.  Paradoxical  as  it  may  appear,  yet  it  is  evi- 
dent, that  it  is  the  very  failure  of  Christian  Science  to  practice  its  principles 
v/hich  makes  its  seeming  success  a  possibility." 

Christian  Science  is  neither  religious  religion  nor  sensible  science. — 
K.  L.  B. — (The  King's  Business.) 

Nobody   Right   But   God 

Some  of  the  letters  we  receive  from  Christian  Scientists  are  most  re- 
markable demonstrations  of  the  fact  that  they  are  more  or  less  dominatetl 
by  this  thing  called  "mortal  error."  Most  of  the  epistles  which  we  receive 
are  either  unsigned  or  without  address.  Some  have  the  habit  of  writing-  the 
most  biting  part  of  their  messages  on  the  outside  of  the  envelope.  Others 
return  to  us  tracts  and  literature  issued  against  Christian  Science,  the  lit- 
erature having  undergone  the  Christian  Science  treatment.?  Slips  of  paper 
are  carefully  pasted  over  certain  words  and  unique  artistic  ability  is  dis- 
played in  the  retouching  of  titles,  etc.,  by  the  use  of  the  pen. 

One  zealous  brother  decorates  the  outside  of  his  envelope  with  the  words, 
"The  reason  you  rail  at  Christian  Science  is  because  they  are  in  whiteheat 
favor."  He  tells  the  truth.  But  when  did  public  favor  ever  prove  the  truth 
of  a  cause?  The  plain  truths  of  God's  Word  have  never  had  that  favor. 
Je.sus  Christ  never  knew  anything  of  whiteheat  favor.  A  religion  that  denies 
the  fact  of  sin  as  well  as  a  penalty  for  sin  would  naturally  be  expected  ti» 
reach  whiteheat  favor. 

One  remarks  on  the  outside  of  his  envelope,  "If  God  don't  object  to' 
Christian  Science,  why  should  you  worry?"  But  God  does  object.  His  whole 
Word  objects.  He  warns  and  re-warns  against  ^the  damnable  false  religions 
that  will  characterize  the  last  days  of  the  a.ti-e,  especially  ^'science  falsely  so- 
cr.lled."  He  says,  "Mark  them,  avoid  them."  Rom.  16:17.  He  says  "Re- 
buke them."  Tit.  1:13;  "Bid  them  not  Godspeed,"  2  Jno.  11;  "Receive  them 
not  into  your  houses,"  2  Jno.  10;  "Stop  their  mouths,"  Tit.  1:11;  "Try  them 
whether  they  be  of  God,"  1  John  4:1.  He  says  many  other  things  concern- 
ing those  who  will  bring  in  strange  doctrines  concerning  the  person  anil 
v/ork  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Perhaps  this  is  why  Mrs.  Eddy  is  compelled 
to  tell  us  that  "a  mortal  and  material  sense  stole  into  the  divine  record, 
darkened  to  some  extent  the  inspired  pages  with  its  own  hue." 

Another  decorates  the  titles  of  a  tract  and  makes  it  read,  "Everyone 
wrong  but  me,"  (then  follows  the  author's  name).  No,  EVERYONE  WRONG 
BUT  GOD.  "Thy  Word  is  ITruth."  "To  the  law  and  to  the  testimony,  if 
they  speak  not  according  to  this  Word  there  is  no  truth  in  them."  Isa.  8:20. 
Cod's  Word  was  given  to  correct  men's  thoughts  in  regard  to  eternal  things 
(Isa.  .'')5:8-9). 

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"Everyone  wrong;  but  me" — so  says  Mrs.  Eddy.  "Science  and  Health," 
she  says,  "is  the  voice  of  trutli,  the  revealed  truth,  uncontaminated  by  human 
hypothesis."  "God  has  been  fitting-  me  for  the  reception  of  a  I'TNAL  revela- 
tion."    "Divine  Science  is  the  Word  of  God." 

Let  us  warn  once  more,  "Everyone  is  wrong-  BUT  GOD."  The  moment 
we  find  a  human  writing  that  claims  to  be  essential  to  the  understanding  of 
the  Bible,  we  may  be  assured  we  are  to  be  carried  BEYOND  THE  BIBLE 
and  upon  dangerous  ground.  The  constant  search  for  "new  truth"  is  nothing 
but  the  desire  to  escape  the  need  of  practicing  the  old.  There  is  no  new 
truth.  God's  Word  is  the  FINAL  revelation,  open  to  all  who  will  read  with 
the  aid  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  not  to  be  added  to  or  substracted  from. — K.  L.  B. 

(The  King's  Business). 

The  Book  Worm 

"To  pour  into  the  ears  of  listeners  the  sacred  revelations  of  Christian 
Science  indiscriminately  or  without  characterizing  their  origin  and  thus  dis- 
tinguishing them  from  the  writings  of  authors  who  think  at  random  on  this 
subject,  is  to  lose  some  weight  in  the  scale  of  right  thinking.  Therefore  it  is 
the  duty  of  every  member  when  publicly  reading  or  quoting  from  the  books 
and  poems  of  our  pastor  emeritus,  to  first  announce  the  name  of  the  author. 
Members  shall  also  instruct  their  students  to  adopt  the  aforenamed  method." 
(Page  39).  On  page  62  she  says:  "All  students  of  Christian  Science  must 
drop  the  titles  of  Reverend  or  Doctor,  except  those  who  have  received  their 
titles  under  the  laws  of  the  state."  On  page  52  she  says:  ',  "Students  of 
Christian  Science  apply  the  term  "Mother"  only  to  Mrs.  Eddy  and  their 
kindred  according*  to  the  flesh." 

(The  King's  Business). 

Non-sense  Science 

"To  describe  Christian  Science  as  non-sense  is  no  reflection  upon  its 
character,"  says  Rev.  A.  C.  Wyckoff.  "On  the  contrary  it  is  but  emphasiz- 
ing its  chief  point  of  merit.  For  Mrs.  Eddy  proudly  boasts  that  the  structure 
of  her  whole  philosophical  and  scientific  system  rests  upon  this  one  distin- 
guishing feature.  The  real  question  at  issue  between  Christian  Science  and 
all  other  science,  when  reduced  to  its  lowest  elements,  is  nothing  less  than 
balancing  over  against  each  other  the  respective  claims  of  sense  versus  non- 
sense perception  as  to  the  most  reliable  interpreter  of  the  nature  and  order  of 
the  universe.  Mrs.  Eddy  takes  her  stand  unequivocally  upon  the  side  of  non- 
sense perception,  and  therefore  rejects  all  sense  knowledge  as  false  and  er- 
roneous. There  need  be  no  doubt  or  confusion  upon  this  fundamental  point, 
for  she  reiterates  it  over  and  over  again.  Here  are  a  few  instances:  The 
five  physical  senses  are  the  avenues  and  instruments  of  human  error  (p.  293). 
Corporeal  sense  defrauds  and  lies;  it  breaks  all  the  commands  of  the  Mosaic 
Decalogue  to  meet  its  own  demandsi  (p.  489).  Divine  Science  reverses  the 
false  testimony  of  the  material  senses,  and  thus  tears  away  the  foundations  of 
error.  Hence  the  enmity  between  Science  and  the  senses  (p.  273).  The 
question  is  some  times  asked:  How  can  intelligent  people  become  Christian 
Scientists?  The  answer  is  here  given  by  Mrs.  Eddy:  Relinquish  all  theories 
based  upon  sense  testimony  (p.  249).  This  furnishes  the  one  and  only  con- 
dition upon  which  anv  one,  intelligent  or  otherwise,  can  become  a  Christian 
Scientist." 

(The  King's  Business). 

CHAPTER  XI. 

Detivered  From  Christian  Science. 

San  Bernardino,  Calif. 

"Dear  Mrs. : — 

"Four  and  one  half  years  since,  my  home  was  made  desolate.  At  last 
I  am  in  the  mountains,  recuperating  my  chronic,  weak  nei^ves,  and  rebuild- 

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ing:  vitality,  for  in  these  four  years  I  have  been  searching  for  truth. 

"I  am*  suddenly  realizing  that  my  search  for  truth  has  been  in  the  wTong 
direction,  all  these  years.  I  came  to  the  mountains  with  only  a  Bible,  deter- 
mined to  clear  my  mind,  and  at  once  in  a  natural,  yet  wonderful  way,  God  is 
revealing  to  me,  through  Scripture,  what  folly  it  has  been  to  forget  that  Adam 
sinned,  and  the  race  was  condemned  to  death.  Jesus  Christ  came;  sacrificed 
His  life  in  compensation  for  our  death  through  Adam.  Bought  us  with  a  ran- 
som, and  we  who  accept  it  in  faith,  consecrate  our  lives  to  Him,  and  offer  our 
bodies,  a  living  sacrifice  to  go  down  in  death,  and  be  resurrected  in  glory  at 
the  great  awakening  day. 

"Christian  healing  passed  with  the  apostolic  age — not  to  be  restored 
until  the  restitution  days  in  the  millennial  age.  All  who  die  are  to  be  resur- 
rected. Such  healing  as  Christian  Science  and  similar  forces,  is  a  subtle 
force,  furnished  by  the  adversary  to  hoodwink  the  \ionsecrated  ones  out  of 
their  inheritance  m  Christ.  We  who  have  followed  Mrs.  Eddy  and  sim.ilar 
forces,  let  us  drop  it  and  follow  the  Jesus  Christ  of  the  Bible.  Mrs.  Eddy 
never  caught  the  divine  plan  in  the  Bible  but  injected  false  doctrine  into  it, 
and  denied  the  ransom. 

"I  write  this  in  love.  My  last  letter  was  wrong.  I  am  ditching  all  the 
metaphysical.  I  want  my  brain  clear,  and  please  never  send  me  silent  treat- 
ments. '  I  want  the  simple  old  prayer  that  Jesus  taught.  More  I  will  write 
when  I  once  get  my  typewriter.     But  this  is  a  return  to  true  religion. 

"Now  drop  me  a  line  and  see  how  this  strikes  you — it  may  be  a  shock  — 
but  let  it  be  a  wholesome  one.  Not  one  is  perfect,  all  of  us  make  long  mis- 
takes, but  we  have  One  who  is  perfect,  and  in  Him  only  are  we  saved.  But 
we  must  comply,  accept,  and  have  faith  and  give  ourselves,  our  wills,  to 
Him,  and  not  try  to  treat  ourselves  into  the  Kingdom,  or  climb  up  by  .v^ooci 
works — along  an  outside  door. 

"As  ever. 


(The  Moody  Bible  Institute  Monthly.) 

(We  are  permitted  to  print  the  following  letter  addressed  by  a  gentle- 
man in  Calif omia  to  a  friend  in  Minnesota,  under  date  of  September  21,  1020. 
—-Editor. 

Delivered  From  Intellectual  Assassination. 

You  have  asked  me  to  give  you  an  account  of  my  experience  with  the 
so-called  Ciiristian  Science.  I  do  not  ridicule  Christian  Science,  for  it  is  a 
subject  that  should  be  treated  seriously.  I  know  many  professing  Christians 
who  say  Cliristian  Scientists  believe  in  Jesus  Christ,  and  so  they  do,  but  in 
an  entirely  erroneous  way. 

I  thank  God  I  have  been  delivered  from  the  confusion  and  deception  and 
mental  imprisonment  of  Eddyism  to  the  joyous  liberty  of  salvation  found  in 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  as  a  personal  Savior  (Jno.  3:16;  1:12).  I  never  could 
understand  why  God  should  have  chosen  Mrs.  Eddy  to  the  position  Scientists 
claim  for  her  as  a  discerner  of  the  truth.  I  know  now  that  there  is  but  ONE 
BOOK,  the  Word  of  God,  and  the  Holy  Spirit  is  the  only  "Key"  needed. 

When  I  was  a  Scientist,  I  was  forever  being  told  to  "read  Science  an(t 
Health".  There  was  never  a  word  about  findinu-  out  what  God  has  said.  Mrs. 
Eddy  is  the  encyclopedia  of  this  mysterious  delusion  and  it  is  always  WHAT 
SHE  SAYS.  You  dare  not  go  beyond  that.  If  you  do,  you  "do  not  under- 
stand" Christian  Science. 

I  always  attended  the  Wednesday  night  services.  In  these  services  Mrs. 
Eddy  was  always  being  lauded  to  the  skies.  The  name  of  Jesus  was  rarely, 
if  ever,  heard.    They  do  not  even  say,  "I  thank  God." 

My  wife  had  been  ailing  for  months.  Physicians,  of  whom  we  consultefl 
many,  seemed  to  accomplish  little  good  for  her.  Our  regular  doctor  saiil 
slie  had  a  bare  chance  to  be  cured  if  given  proper  care.     My  wife  came  to 

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tlie  place  where  she  said  she  was  going  to  trust  God  alone  for  her  healing. 
Just  as  we  were  talking  together  about  this  matter,  a  lady  friend  of  my 
v/ife's  called.  My  wife  told  her  of  her  decision  and  our  friend,  exclaimed, 
"Why,  you  are  just  ripe  for  Christian  Science.  I  am  so  glad  I  called  at  tliis 
particular  time."  She  tried  to  explain  Christian  Science  to  us,  and  the  system 
seemed  to  hold  out  such  hopes  that  we  fell  for  it.  (How  often  the  devil  has 
thrust  in  this  modern  pernicious  teaching  just  at  the  point  where  one  was 
moved  to  trust  God  alone  for  healing!) 

Our  friend  explained  to  us  that  the  old  orthodox  idea  of  praying  to  a 
God  up  in  heaven  somewhere,  who  looked  down  on  poor  mortals,  must  be 
c^ist  on  the  scrap  heap.  Christian  Science,  she  said,  did  away  with  this  foulisli 
idea  of  praying  to  a  personal  God.  She  sent  us  a  practitioner  who  laid  down 
the  rules  to  us,  admonishing  us  to  follow  w^hat  Mrs.  Eddy  said  very  care- 
fully. 

God  is  divine  principle,  the  principle  of  all  harmonious  mind  action. 
God  is  definitely  individual  and  not  personal.  I  found  that  Mrs.  Eddy's  God 
was  not  the  God  of  the  Bible  I  had  formerly  known.  Our  first  lesson  in  con- 
confusion  cost  us  $2.00,  for  the  practitioner  emphasized  the  fact  that  "the 
laborer  is  worthy  of  his  hire."  Then  we  must  buy  "Science  and  Health"  right 
away.  We  were  blind  enough  to  do  anything  and  we  did  all  that  we  vvere 
directed  to  do.  It  was  necessary  to  have  the  practitioner  every  day  of  course, 
and  during  the  night  absent  treatments  were  essential. 

In  the  meantime  my  wife  was  enduring  untold  agony,  trying  to  believe 
there  is  no  pain  or  sickness  but  that  it  is  all  due  to  the  error  of  mortal  mind. 
More  than  once  I  knew  the  practitioner  was  at  card  parties  and  theaters  at 
the  time  she  was  supposed  to  be  giving  the  absent  treatment.  When  I  called 
by  phone  for  special  treatments,  my  wife's  misery  being  almost  unendurable, 
we  would  be  directed  to  read  what  Mrs.  Eddy  had  said  on  certain  pages,  and 
the  practitioner  would  go  back  to  the  card  game. 

This  state  of  affairs  continued  four  months.  We  had  many  practitioners. 
All  we  heard  was,  "Know  the  truth  and  the  truth  wdll  make  you  free."  (f 
l^.ter  found  from  Jno.  14:6  that  the  truth  will  not  make  us  free  unless  we  be- 
lieve in  HIM  who  IS  the  TRUTH.  Oh,  if  people  would  only  read  the  Bible!) 
My  wife's  condition  grew  streadily  worse — and  then  the  end! 

About  four  hours  before  she  died,  she  lapsed  into  unconsciousness.  She 
mumbled  about  "the  valley  of  the  shadow  of  death"  and'  Scripture  verses 
she  had  known  from  a  child.  The  practitioners  wha  were  with  her  at  the 
time  said,  "Get  a  doctor  quick."  This  indeed  seemed  very  strange  for  it  was 
contrary  to  all  the  principles  we  had  been  taught,  yet  I  complied  with  the 
request,  calling  one  of  the  best  doctors  in  the  city. 

As  the  two  practitioners  prepared  to  beat  a  hasty  retreat  they  instructed 
me  to  hide  all  Christian  Science  literature  and  told  me  to  deny  that  I  had  had 
anything  to  do  with  Christian  Science,  if  asked  by  the  doctor. 

The  doctor  arrived  and  seemed  greatly  concerned.  He  very  naturally 
thought  it  was  a  case  of  pure  neglect.  He  asked  me  many  question  and' 
seemed  much  perplexed  at  the  state  of  things.  He  sent  me  to  the  drug  store, 
and  after  doing  what  he  could,  he  left,  promising  to  return  in  two  hours.  Be- 
fore he  came  back,  my  poor  wife,  worn  out  with  her  suffering,  passed  away. 

The  doctor  pronounced  her  dead,  and  I  had  the  audacity  to  later  tell  the 
!  practitioners  she  was  dead,  but  they  stoutly  maintained  she  wps  not  dead. 
i  The  doctor  gave  me  a  good  grilling  and  insisted  that  an  autopsy  be  per- 
formed. In  the  meantime,  he  communicated  with  other  doctors  we'  liad  for- 
merly employed,  and  learning  of  her  former  condition,  I  was  cleared  of  blame 
and  was  told  to  proceed  with  the  funeral  arrangements. 

The  Christian  Scientists  called  this  a  "wonderful  demonstration,"  and 
induced  me  to  spend  much  time  in  a  further  study  of  the  teachins-s.  But  T 
kept  remarking  that  I  was  all  confused,  whereupon  thev  would  trv  to  quiet 
me  by  saying  I  did  not  grasp  Mrs.  Eddy's  meaning.  I  knew  I  wr^s  nftf"- 
something — but  did  not  then  know  what  it  was.  I  would  go  to  practitioners 
and  ask  all  sorts  of  questions. 

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I  asked  one  if  our  bodies  were  not  the  temple  of  God  (1  Cor.  3:16-17). 
"Oh,  my,  no,"  she  answered,  "there  is  no  life,truth  or  inteilip:ence  in  matter, 
Man  is  not  material.  Man  is  spiritual.  See  what  Mrs.  Eddy  says.  Follow 
your  daily  lessons  from  the  quarterly." 

I  asked  if  I  should  not  believe  in  the  blood  of  Jesus  Christ.  "Mrs.  Eddy 
says,"  she  replied,  "that  the  material  blood  of  Jesus  was  no  more  efficacious 
to  cleanse  from  sin  when  it  was  shed  upon  the  accursed,  tree  than  when  it 
was  flowing-  in  His  veins."  Then  I  read  my  Bible  and  wondered  why  the 
olood  was  sprinkled  on  the  door  posts  (Ex.  12:21-22)  if  it  could  serve  the 
same  purpose  left  in  the  veins  of  the  innocent  lambs.  May  God  have  mercy 
on  those  who  tread  under  foot  the  blood  of  Jesus  Christ  (Heb.  10:28-29; 
li:27;  1  Jno.  1:7;  Rev.  5:0;  1:5;  Col.  1.20;  Acts  20:28).  "Without  the  sheddinjr 
of  blood  is  no  remission  for  sins." 

But  my  practitioner  said,  "How  foolish  that  all  is — and  how  repulsive  and 
repugnant  the  very  thought.  How  can  old  blood,  shed  years  ago,  cleanse 
from  sin?  The  idea  is  heathen!  If  people  would  but  know  the  truth,  tliey 
would  see  that  man  is  incapable  of  sin." 

I  asked  about  Christ's  death  and  resurrection.  I  was  so  i.?i:norant  and  S'> 
hungry,  I  could  not  help  asking  questions,  for  I  could  make  nothing  out  of 
Mrs.  Eddy's  writings.  "Mrs.  Eddy  says,"  the  practitioner  replied,  "Jesus 
did  not  die  and  His  death  means  nothing  to  a  Christian  Scientist."  But  praise 
God,  His  death  means  ETERNAL  LIFE  to  me  now. 

Regarding  the  resurrection  I  was  told  that  "Christ's  resurrection  was 
simply  spiritualization  of  thought — material  belief  yielding  to  spritual  under- 
sT-anding" — whatever  that  is.  But  praise  God  I  now  know  Jesus  as  the  "re- 
surrection and  the  life"  (Jno.  11:25)  and  I  know  that  believing  in  Him,  even 
though  I  die,  yet  shall  I  live. 

I  knev,'  Christian  Science  had  failed  in  my  wife's  case  and  knew  it  was 
failing  to  keep  me  from  sin.  Evil  was  ever  present  with  me.  I  longed  to 
be  good  and  to  do  good.  As  much  as  I  was  told  that  I  was  mcapable  of  sin, 
my  consicence  kept  witnessing  to  the  fact  that  I  was  a  miserable  sinner.  I 
was  a  miserable  man. 

About  this  time  someone  placed  in  my  mail  box  some  announcements  of 
the  rrorrey  meetings.  With  this  v/as  some  literature  entitled,  "The  Spirit  of 
Truth  and  the  Spirit  of  Error,"  setting-  forth  briefly  the  teachings  of  the 
cults  as  contrasted  with  Scripture  verses.  I  became  intensely  interested  and 
began  lookmg  up  the  passages.  I  found  I  could  read  the  Bible  without  Mrs. 
Eddy's  "key"  much  better  than  I  could  with  it.  I  resolved  to  o-o  and  hear  Dr 
Torrey  and  settle  the  matter  then  but  it  was  not  God's  will  to  wait  to  do 
His  work  of  grace  in  my  heart  when  I  was  in  the  presence  of  Dr.  Torrey  and 
the  people  who  thronged  to  hear  him.  for  on  January  IG,  '19,  God  spoke  peace 
to  my  soul  as  I  took  Him  at  His  word  in  childlike  faith.  The  moment  I  saw 
Christ  as  more  than  a  mere  man,  I  saw  mys:^lf  as  a  hopeless  sinner,  separated 
from  God.  The  moment  I  realized  that  Jesus'  blood  was  shed  for  me,  un- 
speakable joy  flooded,  my  being.  Old  things  passed  away.  All  things  be- 
came new.  I  found  myself  able  to  do  things  I  never  could  have  done  in  my 
own  strength.  I  found  a  love  for  things  I  had  never  before  desired  I  knew 
I  was  "born  again." 

Blessed  assurance,  Jesus  is  mine. 
0,  what  a  foretaste  of  g-Iory  divine. 
Heir  of  salvation,  purchase  of  God. 
Born  of  His  Spirit,  washed  in  His  blood. 
(Name  and  address  can  be  furnished  by  the  Editor.) 

(The  King's  Business.) 
Another  Rescued  From  C.  S. 

The  following  account  of  how  the  Lord  has  In  answer  to  prayer  de- 
livered one  more  from  the  clutches  of  Christian  Science  will  be  of  interest. 


Tiie  name  and  address  of  the  party  who  writes  tlie  letter  can  be  furnished  at 
this  office: 

"Some  time  ag:o  two  women,  only  one  of  whom  I  knew,  began  to  offer 
persistent  prayer  to  God  that  I  might  be  delivered  from  the  clutches  of 
Christian  Science.  I  knew  nothing-  of  their  praying,  I  was  quite  satisfied  with 
my  religion — that  is,  as  much  as  one  could  be  with  a  false  religion.  But 
through  those  weeks  the  Lord  was  strangely  leading  me.  No  outside  in- 
fluence was  brought  to  bear  on  me  except  that  of  prayer.  I  was  one  night 
alone  in  my  room.  All  was  quiet.  Suddenly  I  seemed  to  be  conscious  of 
an  unseen  power  in  the  room.  I  was  greatly  afraid  and  was  about  to  go  out 
for  a  walk  to  escape  the  feeling.  Something  caused  me  to  kneel  in  prayer — 
a  very  strange  thing  for  me  to  do,  never  having  done  it  before  in  my  life. 
Despite  the  seeming  efforts  of  something  to  hinder  me,  I  knelt  and  asked  God 
10  deliver  me  from  the  peril,  whatever  it  was.  Immediately  I  became  con- 
scious of  another  power.  It  was  no  longer  God,  the  great  Creator  far  away 
as  He  always  had  been  to  me,  but  it  seemed  to  be  Jesus  the  Redeemer.  When 
1  arose  from  my  knees,  I  had  a  peace  'which  passeth  all  understanding'.  The 
Lord  had  won  the  victory.  Turning  around,  my  eyes  fell  on  my  text-book, 
'Science  and  Health'.  Instantly  I  realized  it  was  all  wrong— absolutely  con- 
trary to  God's  will  for  me  and  to  His  Word.  From  that  moment  to  this  I 
have  opposed  Eddyism  at  every  opportunity.  Needless  to  say  I  consigned  the 
literature  to  the  flames.  It  was  only  the  power  of  God,  in  answer  to  prayer, 
that  showed  me  in  this  miraculous  way  how  Eddyism  was  the  devil's  trap.' 
May  God  move  Christian  people  everywhere  to  pray  that  souls  in  the  grip 
of  these  errors  might  be  similarly  delivered." 

(The  King's  Business.) 
Irresistible  Logic 

"In  Christian  Science  there  are  no  discords  nor  contraditions,  because 
its  logic  is  as  harmonious  as  the  reasoning  of  an  accurately  stated  svllogism 
cr  of  a  properly  computed  sum  in  arithmetic.  Truth  is  ever  truthful,  and 
can  tolerate  no  error  in  premise  or  conclusion"  (p.  129). 

Here  are  a  few  samples  of  this  logic: 

The  divine  metaphysics  of  Christian  Science,  like  the  method  in  mathe- 
matics, proves  the  rule  by  inversion.  For  example.  There  is  no  pain  in 
Truth,  and  no  truth  in  pain;  no  nerve  in  Mind,  and  no  mind  in  nei*ve;  no 
matter  in  Mind,  and  no  mind  in  matter;  no  matter  in  good  and  no  good  in 
matter   (p.  113). 

Such  logic  is  irresistible.  It  might  be  continued  indefinitely  as  follows: 
There  is  no  ice  in  water,  and  no  water  in  ice;  no  rainbow  in  beauty,  and  no 
beauty  in  a  rainbow;  no  Science  and  Health  in  Truth,  and  no  truth  in  Sci- 
ence and  Health;  no  Mrs.  Eddy  in  Honesty,  and  no  honesty  in  Mrs.  Eddv;  no 
Christian  Science  in  Good,  and  no  good  in  Christian  Science.  This  is  the' type 
of  logic  of  which  it  is  said,  "Truth  is  ever  truthful,  and  can  tolerate  no 'er- 
ror in  premise  or  conclusion." — Rev.  Albert  C.  Wychoff. 

(The  King's  Business.) 

Planting   Mortal  Thoughts 

We  have  come  upon  some  information  which  may  be  of  value  to  the 
farmer  and  gardener.     Mrs.  Eddy  says: 

"It  is  a  self-evident  error  to  suppose  that  there  can  be  such  a  reality  as 
;  organic  animal  or  vegetable  life,  when  such  so-called  life  alwavs  emh  in 
;  death"  (p.  309). 

"The  plant  grows,  not  because  of  seed  or  soil,  but  because  growth  is  the 
eternal  mandate  of  Mind.  Mortal  thought  drops  into  the  ground,  but  the 
immortal  creating  thought  is  from  above,  not  from  beneath.  Because  Mind 
riakes  all,  there  is  nothing  left  to  be  made  by  a  lower  power"  (p.  520). 

This  may  all  be  true,  but  in  actual  experience  Christian  Scientist  farmers 
and  gardners  give  as  much  attention  to  seed  and  soil  as  though  there  were 

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till  something  *ieft  to  be  made  by  a  lower  power,"  and  the  "'mortal  thoughts" 
/hich  they  drop  into  the  ground  are  as  carefully  selected  from  seed  cata- 
:>gues  as  though  they  had  some  essential  contribution  to  make  a  success  of 
lanting. — Rev.  Albert  C.  Wychoff. 

(The  King's  Business.) 

The  High  Price  of  Eddyosity 

A  Canada  minister  tells  of  being  summoned  to  a  hospital  to  see  a  re- 
timed major  who  was  ill.  A  friend  who  has  been  (or  thought  he  had  been) 
ealed  by  Christian  Science  had  been  urging  him  to  try  Science.  The  major 
[lid  he  would  much  like  to  please  his  friend  as  well  as  to  recover,  and  asked 
be  minister  what  he  would  advise. 

"I  think  there  is  a  very  good  chance  of  your  being  restored  if  you  try 
Christian  Science,"  was  the  unexpected  reply. 

"Then  would  you  advise  me  to  try  it?"  asked  the  major. 

"Yes,"  said  the  minister,  "but  I  would  advise  also  that  you  consider  the 
rice  one  has  to  pay." 

"Price — what  is  price  to  getting  one's  health  back?"  asked  the  major. 

Then  the  minister  explained.  "You  might  be  healed  by  Science,"  he 
uid,  "but  you  would  have  to  give  up  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  as  your  personal 
avior.  Christian  Science  denies  evil,  Satan  and  sickness  as  realities  and 
ence  has  no  need  of  an  atoning  Savior,  If  you  care  to  pay  the  price,  you 
lay  well  try  Eddyism." 

The  major  had  been  brought  up  to  believe  on  Christ  as  the  Eternal  Son 
f  God  and  Sin-bearer  of  the  world,  through  the  prayers  of  a  godly  father — 
nd  he  decided  the  price  of  Science  was  too  much.  He  has  since  been  healed 
irough  the  prayers  of  Christian  friends. 

The  above  method  of  dealing  with  this  ism  is  wortTi  trying.  We  believe 
;  would  be  more  effective  than  discussing  Mary  Baker  Eddy  plus  her  num- 
rous  husbands.  Draw  up  a  statement  embodying  the  great  fundamentals 
f  Christian  faith  as  taught  by  the  Bible  and  closing  it  with  the  statement, 
I  am  now  ready  to  cast  on  the  scrapheap  all  these  Bible  doctrines  in  order 
3  embrace  Eddvism,"  and  ask  vour  friends  if  they  are  willing  to  sign. 

— K.  L.  B. 
(The  King's  Businerss). 

Latter  Day  Delusions,  the  Supreme  Effort  of  Satan 

The  Biblical  prophecies  indicate  that  in  the  last  days  of  the  at>e  in  which 
'e  are  living,  we  are  to  expect  an  intensified  apostasy,  to  be  manifested  alon/'- 
riree  distinct  lines,  namely — infidelity,  heresy  and  fanaticism.  The  infidel 
as  already  come,  and  in  many  cases  has  found  his  wav  behind  the  pulpit.  He 
as  induced  thousands  to  reject  the  authority  of  the  Bible.  Thp  heretics  also 
re  with  us  in  numbers  never  before  known.  Hundreds  of  stran^.:^  doc+^rinps 
re  exploited,  each  bolstered  up  with  scattered  passages  from  the  Bible. 
Inch  of  these  manages  cleverly  to  shroud  the  very  heart  of  the  Gospel,  if  not 
))enly  abhor  the  doctrine  of  the  Cross  and  scorn  thos'^  who  "hanq-  their  souls 
n  such  a  barbarous  tragedy  as  the  crucifixion."  On  top  of  these  two  classes 
f  delusions,  we  are  also  witnessing  an  increasing  number  of  fanatics  who 
ush  thousands  beyond  the  bounds  of  common  sense  or  Bible  authority,  all 
naware  that  in  their  extremism  they  are  being  used  of  the  devil  as  much  as 
^e  infidel  or  heretic. 

The  infidel  appeals  to  the  worldly  minded:  the  heretic  gets  the  inqui- 
itive-minded  ones:  the  fanatic  captures  the  emotional  ones. 

J.  Hudson  Ballard  points  out  that  Scripture  defines  three  loadine  char- 
tteristics  of  latter  dav  delusions.  (1 )  Great  pov/er.  2  Tim.  3:8:  Mt.  24:24. 
:22,  2.3;  2  Thes.  2:9.  The  devil  oils  the  tonjrues  of  his  servants,  charp-es  them 
ith  Satanic  magnetism  and  gives  them  power  over  the  minds  of  whole  bodies 
f  men.  (2)  Great  deception.  Rev.  L3:14;  2  Thes.  2:10:  Mt.  24:24.  Sntan  is; 
prince  of  deceivers  and  in  these  days  he  is  calling  forth  all  the  depths  of 


treacherous  cunning-  that  are  in  him.  Some  of  his  servants  carry  Bibles 
under  their  arms,  have  it  at  their  tongues'  end  and  apparently  quote  it  with 
reverence.  They  have  the  right  bait  for  every  case.  (3)  Great  success,  the 
natural  result  of  great  power  and  great  deception.  Mt.  24:11;  2  Thes  2-3- 
1  Tim  5:1;  2  Tim.  3:3;  2  Pet.  2:1-2.  People  have  an  idea  that  the  success  "of 
a  teaching  is  the  evident  mark  of  God's  favor  and  they  resent  one's  makinc 
any  attack  upon  them,  saying,  "If  it  be  not  of  God  it  will  come  to  nought." 
Dent  forget,  however,  that  the  success  of  FALSE  TEACHINGS  is  clearly 
prophesied  for  the  days  just  prior  to  the  second  coming  of  Christ,  and  the 
great  strides  of  these  modem  religious  movements  which  have  parted  com- 
pany with  the  fundamentals  of  Scripture,  are  therefore  only  an  indication  of 
their  infernal  origin. 

What  shall  we  do  in  days  like  these?  Whose  doctrine  shall  we  accept? 
S™!J?^!J  ^^  ^^^P  ^^^^  ^^i"^  swept  off  our  feet?  "TO  THE  LAW  AND  TO 
THE  TESTIMONY.';  Take  God's  Word  from  the  pure  stream.  No  filters  are 
needed.  A  real  revival  of  Bible  study  is  the  only  hope  of  the  church.  Not 
only  that,  but  we  must,  in  connection  with  the  completeness  of  God's  Word 
know  God  Himself  through  prayer.  Well  may  we  tremble  if  we  do  not  walk 
with  God  and  search  His  Word. 

"My  soul  be  on  thy  guard. 

Ten  thousand  foes  arise. 
The  hosts  of  sin  are  fighting  hard 
To  keep  thee  from  the  skies." 

— K.  L.  B. 
(The  King's  Business.) 

The  Religious  Press 

A  denominational  weekly  gives  us  a  splendid  editorial  on  "Uses  and 
Abuses  of  the  Press. 

^u  u  ^^  ]^  H  ^f  lamented  that  the  power  of  the  press  is  to  a  great  extent  in 
the  hands  of  the  enemies  of  God,"  says  the  editor.  "Whv  has  the  Christian 
church  failed  m  this  respect?  Christian  Science  can  edit  big  dailv  news- 
papers. Why  cannot  the  church  do  the  same  thing?  Few  realize  the  tre- 
mendous influence  which  the  press  is  able  to  wield.     The  press  is  mightier 

nltl  J.  ''^il'^'  /*  ^^^fh^l^oj^  Peopl?  and  goes  where  so  often  man  can 
never  go.  Therefore  et  Christians  write.  Let  not  those  whom  God  has 
given  the  gift  to  use  the  pen  cover  their  talent  in  a  napkin." 

These  are  timely  words— but  what  surprises  us  is  the  wav  this  ve^^' 
editor  eniploys  the  space  in  his  own  magazine.  What  is  true  of  his  magazine 
is  true  of  scores  of  other  religious  papers.  They  have  no  real  food  for  the 
souls  of  their  subscribers.  Here  is  the  actual  list  of  topics  in  the  paper 
referred  to-an  illustration  of  what  thousands  of  people  are  pavhic?  for 
thinking  they  are  getting  "religious"  literature.  ' 

4  tL  ll^'J^^'^'?^'  n?-  Sh^^o^^  Eddy  on  Japan.  3.  The  New  Social  Era. 
F«S  ^^^cfi^^^^^s  IP^^.SS  5  The  Cummings  Railroad  Bill.  6.  Agricultural 
Fairs.  7.  Sherman  Anti-Trust  Law.  8.  Army  Bills  and  Issues.  0.  The  Postal 
Zone  Law.  10.  War  Debts.  11.  Royalties  for  Artists.  12.  The  Diamond 
Monopoly.  13  Hatred  Boomerangs.  14.  Helping  Europe.  15.  Labor  Con 
ZZ7  /«^'r^'  Industrial  Upheaval.  17.  First  American  Commission  ?o 
Poland.  18.  General  News  Summary.  (We  look  in  vain  for  a  passa«^e  of 
Scripture  in  the  whole  magazine).  pai>.sa,^e  oi 

We  want  the  readers  of  The  King's  Business  to  pray  that  we  mav  be 
^?il-r.*^^'  P^^^^  I:  .^^y  ^r^"^  ^'^^^^"^^  be  ours  in  the  compiHng  of^our 

(The  King's  Business.) 
It  is  a   False  Press  That  Does  It 

Dr.  David  S.  Kennedy  at  the  World  Conference  on  Evangelism  remarked: 

—47— 


"There  is  not  a  form  of  error  in  this  age  that  hasn't  its  printing-  press,  and 
putting  thousands  and  thousands  of  dollars  into  it  to  send  forth  a  propaiianda 
if  possible  into  every  heart.  Your  children  are  reading  it  when  you  do  not 
know  it.  You  ministers  have  people  reading  this  error  when  you  are  not 
aware  of  it,  and  you  find  them  losing  interest  in  your  work  and  in  the  cause, 
and  you  do  not  know  what  did  it.  It  is  a  false  press  that  did  it,  and  if  you  are 
to  get  the  work  out  of  the  press  that  you  would  like,  you  must  come  to  the 
support  of  the  evangelical  press,  that  comes  to  back  you  up  and  help  you  to  do 
a  work  you  cannot  do,  and  to  spread  the  influence  which  you  are  intensifying 
and  establishing." 

(The  King's  Business.) 

And  What  Have  We  Done? 

Christian  Science  Propaganda  is  carried  on  with  a  zeal  worthy  of  a  more 
intelligent  faith.  The  yearly  report  of  the  church  says  that  "in  the  past  year 
250,000  pieces  of  our  literature  have  been  carefully  distributed  in  Boston 
alone.  Over  two  hundred  literature  distribution  boxes  have  been  placed  and 
cared  for  by  various  groups  in  the  city." 

(The  King's  Business.) 

The  Christian  Fundamentals  League,  with  headquarters  in  Los  Angeles 
(Room  207  Van  Nuys  Building)  and  of  which  we  wrote  at  length  in  our/ 
February  issue,  has  lined  up  to  its  support  some  of  the  leading  ministers  of 
the  country  who  are  highly  pleased  with  the  plan  of  action  to  be  taken  in 
combatting  the  false  cults.  Its  constructive  program  appeals  to  sensible  men 
and  the  literature  being  put  out  by  the  League  for  distribution  and  for  plac- 
ing in  its  literature  racks  is  conceded  to  be  the  strongest  obtainable.  Some 
very  fruitful  meetings  have  been  held  in  Southern  California  by  speakers 
representing  the  League,  and  literature  racks  are  being  manufactured  fast 
enough  to  supply  the  demands.  We  trust  many  of  our  subscribers  will  give 
their  names  to  Mr.  Robert  Hadden,  General  Secretary  ofl  the  League,  that 
he  may  send  them  circulars  setting  forth  the  plans  for  meeting  the  false 
teachings  everywhere. 

(The  King's  Business,) 


HOW  ARE  ISMS  PROPAGATED? 

Not  by   Logical  and  Eloquent   Sermons,  but  by   the 
Printed  Page  Well  Circulated. 

If  you  want  to  see  the  Christian  Scientists,  the  Russellites  and  the  fol- 
lowers of  other  cults  getting  their  recruits,  sit  up  late  nights  and  get  up 
early  in  the  morning.     You'll  see  them  putting  out  their  literature. 

And  What  is  the  Church  Doing? 

Just  sitting  like  a  bump  on  a  log,  watching  the  process.  Do  you  know 
that  the  followers  of  most  of  the  cults  are  instructed  to  pass  on  to  others 
any  literature  they  have  (including  their  magazines),  just  as  soon  as  they 
are  through  with  it?  Thousands  are  caught  in  this  way.  They  read  the 
literature  so  kindly  given  them  by  neighbors — they  cannot  discern  the  error — 
and  because  the  ideas  expressed  tickle  the  carnal  nature  they  rush  into 
the  cults. 

We  Want  to  Wake  Up  a  Lot  of  Christian  People. 

We  want  them  to  pass  on  their  copies  of  "The  King's  Business."  We 
want  them  to  get  the  habit  of  investing  some  of  the  Lord's  money  in  spread- 
ing the  message  of  this  magazine.  Subscribe  for  a  friend.  Send  us  a  dollar 
or  two  that  we  may  put  the  magazine  into  the  hands  of  those  we  are  constantly 
learning  of,  who  would  appreciate  the  magazine  but  cannot  afford  it.  We 
have  a  waiting  list  of  missionaries  and  country  pastors. 

We  would  like  one  new  subscriber  from  every  present  subscriber.  If 
you  will  send  us  one,  stating  that  you  have  done  so  as  the  result  of  reading 
this  advertisement,  we  will  send  you  either  one  of  the  charts  showing  the 
teachings  of  all  the  isms — or — a  chart  showing  the  teachings  of  Roman 
Catholicism  (your  choice.) 

THE  KING'S  BUSINESS. 


RELIGIOUS  TRACTS 

The  practice  of  placing  the  very  best  and  most  interesting  evangelistic 
tracts  in  literature  bags  about  the  city  has  been  followed  for  the  past  ten 
months  by  the  Central  Presbyterian  church,  and  because  of  its  very  rapid 
growth,  it  is  occasioning  much  favorable  comment  in  Denton  and  elsewhere, 
and  there  are  now,  in  town,  fourteen  places  where  this  literature  can  be 
secured.  These  tracts  are  non-sectarian  and  are  compiled  by  people  of  all 
denominations.  The  stories  and  Bible  truths  are  gripping  and  appealing- 
The  service  is  free  to  everybody,  and  is  supported  by  free  will  offerings  by 
Presbyterians  and  interested  friends.  The  work  will  be  extended  further 
over  the  city  as  the  church  is  able  to  do  so. 

That  these  tracts  are  creating  a  wide  interest  is  indicated  by  the  letters 
which  the  church's  pastor,  Rev.  A.  R.  Copeland  has  received  from  points  in 
Texas  and  Oklahoma,  from  San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles,  Pasadena  and  San 
Eernadino,  Cal.,  New  York,  Toronto,  Kansas  City  and  Milwaukee  commend- 

—49— 


inp:  the  work.  The  wife  of  a  prominent  pastor  in  Milwaukee  wrote  Rev, 
Copeland  and  asked  for  instructions  for  carrying  on  such  work.  Others 
wrote  that  reading  this  literature  led  to  their  conversion.  It  is  the  opinion 
of  the  pastor,  and  one  which  he  has  successfully  proven  since  he  began  the 
practice  in  1912  that  this  is  a  most  economical  and  effective  form  of  evan- 
gelism. 

Literature  bags  are  now  to  be  found  in  the  following  places,  and  these 
bags  are  refilled  with  a  hand  bag  of  literature  every  week;  court  house, 
depot,  Oatman  and  Black  hotels,  South  Side  and  Orear's  barber  shops,  Arkan- 
sas Mill,  Denton  Cafe,  Central  Presbyterian  church  and  Sunday  School  annex, 
first  State  bank,  telephone  office,  gas  office  and  light  office. 

In  adddition  to  this  form  of  evangelism,  the  Presbyterian  church  is 
headquarters  for  good  literature.  In  the  church  there  are  two  book  shelves 
from  which  one  can  select  books  and  leave  the  money  in  the  plate.  There 
is  a  table  in  the  vestibule  loaded  with  books  that  are  free  to  anyone  that 
cares  to  take  them.  These  books  are  out  of  the  ordinary  and  are  written  by 
some  of  the  world's  fore-most  scholars  of  leading  denominations. — (Denton 
Record-Chronicle.) 


NOTE — Anyone  desiring  to  help  forward  this  work,  may  send  their  con- 
tributions to  E.  Hugh  Egan,  Chairman  of  Tract  Work,  Denton,  Texas. 


BIBLE  CONFERENCES 

Conducted  Anywhere 

By  Rev.  A.  Reilly  Copeland,  S.  T.  D.,  Bible  Teacher,  With  Any  Church. 
Ask  For  a  Bulletin  of  This  Work — Denton,  Texas. 


BOOK  STALL 

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from  us.  Just  name  the  book  and  author.  We  have  a  splendid  assortment  on 
hand.  Can  get  you  anything.  Address  order  to  A.  R.  Copeland,  Denton, 
Texas. 


TRACT  DLSTRIBUTION 

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cerning it.  We  will  cheerfully  give  you  the  benefit  of  our  experience  in  this 
niost  valuable  form  of  evangelism.    Address  A.  R.  Copeland,  Denton,  Texas. 


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